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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 …

Music

Secret Camden: Proud Cabaret

Oh, the evening flapped by, the atmosphere as bawdy as an 18th Century mollhouse (well, nearly)

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 …

Health & Fitness

Why It Matters: Bikram Yoga in Queen’s Crescent

Upside down, sweat streaming into both eyes, is not a usual position for inspiration to strike. But it was at precisely that degree of akimbo …

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 …

Community

Life Tips #2. John, 60, Market Stallholder

1. ‘If you’re a jewellery seller, don’t ask for a stall nearest the entrance. It’s the first one customers see so they’ll walk straight by, …

Community

Why Flapjacks Cafe matters

‘I’m heartened that it exists, that there are patient, caring, supportive people who want to work there and help their colleagues’

Outdoors

Free Weekend? Walk Around The Circle Line

It’s 14 miles. And takes the best part of an hour on the tube. But what if you walk it instead?

Health & Fitness

Hampstead Heath, Sunday Morning, 9am

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) …

About Kentishtowner

The award-winning print and online title Kentishtowner was founded in 2010 and is part of London Belongs To Me, a citywide network of travel guides for locals. For more info on what we write about and why, see our About section.