Twenty minutes by train from Perth city, is the postcard-perfect Cottesloe Beach, where turquoise waves crash against icing-sugar sand and beautiful people lounge under a canopy of Norfolk Island pines. After a day of surfing, swimming or sun-worshipping, head to the Italian canteen Il Lido, inside an Art Deco-era hall, to watch the sun sink into the Indian Ocean.

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