The beauty of links golf is that the unpredictable bounces and seaside winds make it a game of patience, not perfection.
There are also plenty of locals strolling along the Strand foreshore, a 2km seaside promenade winding from the army museum to Memorial Park.
You get a seaside breeze so wind is more of a factor there.
Usually, come September, this Somerset seaside town is winding down as the summer revellers depart, the pier empties and the ice-cream sellers shut up shop.
Nature is the main force in shaping these 'links' on seaside land with the wind carving valleys between the dunes.
On a set that resembled a broken-down seaside carnival, with a wind machine blowing scraps of paper into the models' painted faces, Mr. Galliano had girlish cropped jackets that fanned in layers away from the body.
Two people were killed, dozens were injured and thousands of residents were rescued or fled from their homes on Thursday as the UK was battered by powerful winds and seaside communities were threatened by the worst storm surge for more than 60 years.
Unlike festivals staged, à la Woodstock, in muddy, middle-of-nowhere pastures, or worse, in vast, overheated football stadiums, the Gnawa's setting, in a small, friendly and almost impossibly picturesque, wind-cooled seaside city, is as magical and mesmerizing as the music.
Its banality a family outing to the seaside, all blustery sea winds blowing through hair and a family dog cradled under the son's arm is what paradoxically makes it interesting.
