Costa Brava v Bahamas: spot the difference

A Spanish tourist board has used a photograph of a Bahamas beach in an ad campaign for the Costa Brava
  
  


Costa Brava or Bahamas?: Footprints in the sand, promoting Spain but actually taken in the Bahamas.
In a scene typical of holidays on the crowd-free beaches of the Costa Brava, a young woman enjoys a quiet moment to herself. Well, that's what the Spanish tourist board wants you to believe. The picture was in fact taken in the Bahamas Photograph: Dorgie Productions/Getty
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: Holidaymakers's feet on the Platja de Lloret beach, Costa Brava, Spain.
Holidaymakers soak up the sun on an idyllic sandy beach. But is it the Bahamas or the Costa Brava? Yep, that's right, the tattoo is a giveaway: it's the Platja de Lloret in Spain Photograph: Cate Gillon/Getty
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: A Union Jack towel on a sun lounger in Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava, Spain.
In crowded seaside situations, it's important to clearly mark your territory, as demonstrated by a British holidaymaker in Lloret de Mar on the Costa Brava Photograph: Cate Gillon/Getty
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: The swimming pool at Lucayan Beach Resort, Freeport, Bahamas
The crystalline waters of the Med... no, hang on, it's a swimming pool in Freeport, Bahamas Photograph: Glowimages/Getty Images/Glowimages
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: Tourists sunbathe along the beach in Nassau, Bahamas.
On a clear day, you can see all the way to Morocco. But not from this beach in Nassau, Bahamas Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/AP
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: Crowds in the Mediterranean sea on Calella's beach, the Costa Brava, Spain.
Curiously enough, the Costa Brava tourist board didn't choose this image to promote Calella beach near Barcelona Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: Sailing off Eleuthera, Eleuthera Point, Bahamas.
Come in number 43, your time is up... But is this yacht sailing the Mediterranean or the Atlantic? The clue is in the deep blue: its Eleuthera Point in the Bahamas. Photograph: Michael Lawrence/Getty
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: View of the coast towards Tossa de Mar, Costa Brava, Spain.
The Bahamas, best known for their blue waters, sandy beaches and... rugged coastlines? No - this is the coast near Tossa de Mar in Spain Photograph: Gavin Hellier / Robert Harding World Imagery/Getty
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: An English tourist reads a book in Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava, Spain.
Sport and culture in the comfort of your own sun-lounger... it has to be an Englishman abroad. In this case, he's lolling on the beach at Lloret de Mar in Spain Photograph: Cate Gillon/Getty
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: A woman relaxes on a sunlounger on a beach, Salt Cay, Turks and Caicos.
"Where does the Costa Brava start?" inquires the Spanish tourist board. Probably somewhere quite a long way from this beach in Salt Cay, Turks and Caicos Photograph: Walter Bibikow/Getty Images
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: Towels outside holiday apartments in Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava, Spain.
Palm trees swaying in the evening breeze - on a towel hanging outside apartments at Lloret de Mar in Spain Photograph: Cate Gillon/Getty
Costa Brava or Bahamas?: One and Only Ocean Club, Paradise Island, Bahamas - 2006
This beach club is so exclusive, there are no tourists here at all. It's dinner time on Paradise Island, Bahamas, which was used as a location for the Bond film Casino Royale Photograph: Ian McIlgorm/Rex Features
 

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