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Free Weekend? Explore Hastings – and the new Jerwood Gallery

By on April 13, 2012 in Free Weekend?, UK Travel

We are on the terrace of the new Jerwood Gallery, overlooking the working beach, the April sun making the sea sparkle. Low-key in design in deference to Rock-a-Nore’s unique fishermen’s net shops, the building is clad in black ceramic tiles to reflect the changing seaside light. Yet as befits most new seaside galleries, especially Kentishtowner [...]

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Free Week? Walk the 78 Mile Capital Ring

By on March 30, 2012 in Free Weekend?, UK Travel, Walks

Can anywhere become interesting if the right mindset is applied? When I glimpsed a leaflet in Springfield Park, Clapton, giving details of London’s ‘Capital Ring,’ walking route, I was curious. Inside, a map outlined the 78-mile circular route through Woolwich, Crystal Palace, Wimbledon, Richmond, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Stoke Newington, Highgate and Hackney Wick. We formed a plan: [...]

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Free Weekend? Explore Mersea Island, Essex

By on March 16, 2012 in Free Weekend?, UK Travel

‘It’s like an invisible curtain you pass through,’ enthuses artist James Weaver. He’s talking about The Strood, the only Anglo-Saxon causeway in England, which connects tiny Mersea Island to the Essex mainland. ‘More psychological,’ he adds, ‘than physical.’ Several times a month high tides cut Mersea Island off completely – and the locals like it [...]

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Free Weekend? Go South

By on February 10, 2012 in Coffee, Drink, Food, Free Weekend?, UK Travel

There is such a thing as south of the river, Kentishtowners. And today I want to take you on a short stroll around Brixton, the much-overlooked manor that London has finally welcomed back into the fold. Brixton’s reputation – a little like its northern chum Camden Town – has, over the years, gone up and [...]

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Free Weekend? Explore King’s Cross (no, really).

By on February 3, 2012 in Free Weekend?, UK Travel, Walks

There’s no better candidate for a Free Weekend than the ever-changing King’s Cross, one of our absolute favourite parts of London (lest we forget, history fans, Kentish Town was, for many years, in the borough of St Pancras). And it’s so near to the manor. Our preferred route is a stroll along the canal from [...]

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UK Travel: Fisherman’s Cottage, Deal

By on August 11, 2011 in UK Travel

Mrs Kentishtowner does like to be beside the seaside. And no, we don’t mean this salubrious sandy spot in NW5, either. In fact, she feels such an affinity with the coast that the other month she returned home, after a particularly successful afternoon at the office, rattling a pair of keys. ‘Guess what I’ve done?’ [...]

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Life In A Kentish Town

By on April 15, 2011 in Art, UK Travel

So we were lucky enough to be invited to the opening of Turner Contemporary in Margate, and because of its status as a Kentish town – and also to counteract the evil Brian Sewell’s bilge here – we have decided to post some lovely photos in an attempt to woo you Kentishtowners to the glorious [...]

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