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Free Weekend? Explore the coastline, winding streets and vintage shops of Deal, Kent

Sun, a vast shingle beach, retro stores and new restaurants… we head back to one of Kent’s most ancient and thriving seaside towns

Travel

Free Weekend? Take a tapas bar crawl around Seville

In the second of three reports from Andalucia, we head from Malaga to Seville to discover where to find the most perfect bite-size edible

Culture

Top 5: Things to do near Hampstead Heath

Enjoyed our South End Green feature? Here are a few more cultural tips to combine with the beer gardens and boutiques near Hampstead Heath overground station

Must Do

Free Weekend? Explore South End Green

Mention of the place can elicit quizzical looks from otherwise seasoned Londoners, yet you’ve almost certainly been here. We take an amble around the confusingly-named foothills of Hampstead

Travel

Free Weekend? Explore Malaga – on the cheap

The summer holidays are nearly here so in the first of three reports from Southern Spain we head to oft-ignored Malaga old town – with a firm eye on the purse strings

Travel

Free Weekend? Be like a local in Fes, Morocco

Photographer Sally Lyall Grant, who has an exhibition at Queen’s Crescent’s New Space Gallery, gives us tips from her favourite Moroccan city

Must Do

Free Weekend? Walk to Kensal Rise

There’s a cemetery inspired by Père Lachaise in Paris, a shop that serves cocktails – and vintage this and that. We wander over to Kensal Rise

Drink

Free Weekend? Explore St Albans

The other sunny Saturday we were making plans for a trip to Brighton, but then at the last minute changed our minds and went north instead

Must Do

Free Weekend? Hike the 16 mile Camden borough boundary

Call yourself a Kentishtowner? Try walking the Camden loop this bank holiday weekend

Drink

Free Weekend? Explore Stoke Newington – and a Top 5 pub guide

[quote] It’s a genuine wow moment: rundown, boarded up and the perfect setting for horror films” [/quote] So it’s a sunny late spring morning, the …

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