3 Days in Kraków: What Not to Miss
How to spend 3 days in Kraków: the Florian Gate, the Main Square, Wawel Hill, the salt mine and where to eat, with 2- and 4-day versions.
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Camden in One Day: Markets, Canals, Live Music and London’s Other Side
Camden is loud, crowded and a little bit mad, and it smells of eight different kitchens at once. That is not a warning. That is the whole point of the place. Most people arrive, walk through the market for two hours, buy a T-shirt and go home again. They never find the canal, or the…
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Walking London, Part Two: Primrose Hill and the Long Way to Dinner
Camden in daylight, the climb to Primrose Hill and its protected view, then the Uzbek dinner the whole weekend had been walking towards.
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Walking London, Part One: Hammersmith to Camden
Hammersmith’s riverside pubs, the long Thames walk to Barnes and a night in Camden — part one of three days walking London on an August bank holiday.
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Two Durham Walks: The River Below the City, and the One Out to the Garden
Two easy walks in Durham — one hour along the river below the cathedral, or an hour and a quarter out to Old Durham Gardens, 350 years old, free, and almost always empty.
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Durham’s Old Streets: The Market Place, the Vennels and Three Bridges
Durham Market Place has a sea god, a soldier and a horse with no tongue. Plus Silver Street, Saddler Street, the hidden vennels and three medieval bridges.
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Durham Cathedral and Castle: Our Pick of What’s Worth Seeing
Durham Cathedral and Castle sit on a hill above the river. Entry is free, the castle is a student hall — and both are closed more often than you think.
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The Day After the Coronation
We drove to Windsor on 7 May 2023, the day after the coronation, expecting a walk in the park. We got William and Catherine at the barriers and a drone show over the Long Walk.
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Windsor: The Town Behind the Castle
Four visits, never once inside the castle. What Windsor is actually like from the outside: the riverside walk to Eton, the Crown swans, and the streets behind the tourist end.
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Margaret Island: We Came for the Baths and Found the Ruins
We didn’t plan to visit ruins that day. The plan was the thermal bath Palatinus — but a 13th-century Dominican convent, posing frogs, and a ruined church at dusk had other ideas.
