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Free Weekend? Explore Mersea Island, Essex

‘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 …

Must Do

Free Weekend? Explore England’s Lane

England’s Lane is the nearest village to Kentish Town. Isn’t it? Maybe I would say that, as a Yank in NW3, but whether I’m right …

Art

Free Weekend? Explore Weighted Words at Zabludowicz

Here at Kentishtowner HQ we are more than partial – as you should by now have realized – to a bon mot or two. In …

Must Do

Free Weekend (Lunch?): Parliament Hill Farmers’ Market

A Saturday morning stroll across Hampstead Heath to pick up knobbly carrots and oversized loaves of bread has become a beloved pursuit for foodie North …

Coffee

Free Weekend? Go South

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 …

Bench Tales

Free Weekend? Contemplate A Park Bench

Like many addicts, it started with a single line. Except, in my case, it was on a bench, a little way off the main path …

Benedict Drew in Kentish Town
Art

Free Weekend? Try Future Map at the Zabludowicz

Today we launch our new column, Free Weekend? No prizes for guessing what this one’s about – even Mrs Kentishtowner’s nan is keeping up (just) …

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