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Free Weekend? Explore Bristol – a beginner’s guide

Graffiti, sharing plates – and one spectacular bridge: Stephen Emms heads to the waterside city for just 24 hours

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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 …

Travel

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

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Free Weekend? Explore Galway

[quote] “Fans of Camden Town Brewery should be sure to try Galway Hooker – a locally-brewed pale ale – whose name refers to a traditional …

Travel

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 …

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Free (Canine) Weekend? Follow in Pepper’s paw-prints south of the river

Kentishtowner mascot in south of the river scare!

Travel

Free Weekend? Explore Trondheim – A Short Guide

Brace yourselves for touch down on the city’s main airport Værnes, when you’ll be so close to the fjord’s cold waters you’ll wish you were on a seaplane, says Sarah Leo

Travel

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 …

Art

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 …

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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 …

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