Saint John's: 365 beaches, one for every day

According to local tourism marketing, Antigua has one beach for every day of the year: a colorful way of saying how jagged the island's coastline is.

Saint John's center can be explored on foot; Nelson's Dockyard requires a taxi.

Reconstructed in 1845 after earlier structures were destroyed by earthquakes, Saint John's Cathedral dominates the centre with its two twin towers in Baroque style.

Descending towards the port, one walks among the restored warehouses of Redcliffe Quay, once tied to the slave trade and today transformed into shops and restaurants.

In the afternoon, it's worth reaching Nelson's Dockyard, a Georgian naval shipyard and UNESCO World Heritage site where Admiral Nelson served in the 1780s.

Towards evening, one of the nearby beaches closes the day: from Dickenson Bay to Half Moon Bay, the choice varies depending on how far you wish to venture from the centre.

Nelson's Dockyard remains the only functioning Georgian-era naval shipyard in the world, now used by luxury yachts instead of the Royal Navy for which it was originally built.

The exact count of Antigua's beaches has never been scientifically verified: it remains more of an effective tourism slogan than a precisely measured fact.