Graffiti, sharing plates – and one spectacular bridge: Stephen Emms heads to the waterside city for just 24 hours We’re standing by an empty building next to the derelict, Grade II-listed Carriage Works on Stokes Croft, the street known as Bristol’s creative epicentre. Alongside the hipster coffee bars, graffiti is everywhere, as you might expect [...]
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Free Weekend? Explore Swain’s Lane
Why sweat it out on a train to Brighton when we have a charming ‘resort’ of our very own – within stumbling distance? Kentishtowners are luckier than most urban dwellers, enjoying fall-out-the-door access to one of London’s most celebrated almost-rural escapes. And as all good Heath walks need a focal point, so Swain’s Lane, on [...]
Free Weekend? Explore Venice (or how to eat and drink well in the backstreets)
Stephen Emms goes in search of the best bacari, the tiny hidden wine bars that serve up cicheti and spritz By the time we left Venice we’d experienced all weathers. Bright sunshine bouncing of the Grand Canal, gloop-grey skies, biting winds, and finally, incessant rain (so much so that St Mark’s Square flooded, and the [...]
Free Weekend? Explore Galway
We all love our patch of London but sometimes it can get a bit hectic. So if you’re in need of a short break and an afternoon on the Heath just won’t cut it, why not hop over to Galway? I should know; it’s where I’m from. Clinging to the west coast, it’s Ireland’s cultural [...]
Free Week: Explore Rajasthan, India
There is perhaps only one country that could be classed as a cultural multiverse. Hundreds of languages, 1.2 billion people, dozens of cuisines, thirty five states over a million square miles, ancient religious practices coexisting with a democracy pursuing a space programme. And it’s all criss-crossed by a reliable and cheap transport network. So yes, [...]
Free (Canine) Weekend? Follow in Pepper’s paw-prints south of the river
Our pint-sized canine companion, Pepper, is quite the girl about town. While editor Stephen and his other half were over in Venice last weekend, the diminutive Jack Russell took the “magic train” – so called because it whisks you from downtown NW5 to Loughborough Junction in just 17 minutes – to stay with her pal [...]
Free Weekend? Explore Trondheim – A Short Guide
For centuries, we have been fooled. Tricked into believing that Santa and his lovely wife resided somewhere in the arctic realms of the North Pole. But strolling down the cobbled, snowed-in streets of Trondheim, past the most enchanting wooden houses, you’ll soon realise you’ve been mistaken. There’s no doubt: this must be the Claus’ true [...]
Free Week? Take a road-trip around California
“It’s like starring in a Hollywood remake.” Photographer Tom Storr and family do the West Coast by car It came on the last day of our trip. Walking through the crisp spring sunshine of a deserted West Oakland, I Have A Dream boomed from nowhere, echoing around us. It was Martin Luther King Day and [...]
Free Weekend? Explore Turin’s Contemporary Art Scene
We all remember how the city of Bilbao put itself on the tourist map by luring visitors away from the sunny South with the promise of art and culture in the Basque country. And that well-documented Guggenheim effect is much in evidence in Northern Italy’s own factory city turned modern art epicentre, Turin. Actually, I [...]
Free Weekend? Explore Tooting
Ellen used to spend her time in telesales, translation – and Tufnell Park. Then she had a baby, and moved south of the river. But would she come back? Tooting is well connected to Kentish Town – and I should know, as last autumn we left my beloved NW5 for this unknown corner of southwest [...]
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Wednesday Picture: Let’s make a K-Town cinema or arts space actually happen!
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Pinboard: a date set for Kentish Town Carnival – and other spring festivals
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Why It Matters: Busting the delayed motherhood myth
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Free Weekend? Explore Stoke Newington – and a Top 5 pub guide
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Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Ben Osborne, DJ and Arctic Monkeys biographer
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Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Grace Poulter, 24, shop assistant, Future & Found
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Why It Matters: Busting the delayed motherhood myth
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Why It Matters: Kids Club Kampala
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Newsflash: two cinema chains seeking a K-Town venue
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Free Weekend? Explore Stoke Newington – and a Top 5 pub guide
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