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Food

Free Weekend: Explore Rye, East Sussex

Rye is film set quaint, but it’s only when we climb the church tower – a perilous scramble up wooden step-ladders, along foot-wide corridors and …

Music

Free Weekend: A Musical Tour of North London

From The Kinks to Imelda May and beyond, we whisk you around some of the area’s musical tributes

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Free Weekend: It’s A Dog’s Life in NW5

If you live dog-free in our odd but shapely chunk of north London, you may not be aware that we’re inhabiting a tangible canine heaven. …

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Free Weekend? Walk the oldest stretch of canal to Paddington Basin

Every time we walk along the canal, we conclude that we simply don’t do it enough. More often we go east, towards the Saturday crowds …

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Free Weekend: Walk To The Countryside (well, Totteridge Fields)

I’m a complete urbanite but nevertheless I’ve long been obsessed with stepping out of my front door and walking to the ‘countryside’. And so here’s …

Community

Free Weekend Special: More Street Fairs Than You Can Chuck A Greased Pig At

You can’t beat the Great British country fete, they cry to us city dwellers. A stroll to the village green for colourful maypole dancing. Jolly …

Film

Free Weekend? Walk through classic North London movie locations

View North London Film Location Walk in a larger map Who needs Hollywood when you’ve got all the glitz and glamour of, well, North London? …

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Free Weekend? Explore Hastings – and the new Jerwood Gallery

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 …

Art

Free Weekend? Try the Tate a Tate Guerrilla Audio Tour

Whether an art lover, a protest junkie or just your average culture vulture, hostile soundscape takeovers are where it’s at. Three totally unofficial, free audio …

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The new King’s Cross concourse. Oh my!

If you haven’t taken heed of our guide to ‘neighbouring’ Stoke Newington for your sunny Sunday constitutional, then consider a trip to behold this week’s …

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