UK holidays
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A castle in Edinburgh (but not the usual one), cinema nostalgia, up close with live music, and plenty of historic attractions – even beyond the well-known haunts, Auld Reekie has plenty to offer
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A trip to the Lakes to join the celebrations for Beatrix Potter’s 150th birthday will make for family fun – and provide a chance to tuck in to some fine food and drink
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Sister pubs with rooms in two idyllic Cotswolds villages offer a warm welcome (even to non-Tories) and excellent food
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As Butlins, of all places, prepares to stage a festival of alternative club nights, we round up some of the best parties, from Hip Hop Karaoke to Rebel Bingo
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With London Beer Week about to kick off, it’s an ideal time for a crawl south of the river to savour the burgeoning craft brew scene around Bermondsey, Brixton, Penge and Peckham
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This Welsh restaurant with rooms offers peace and seclusion, a Michelin-starred dinner menu of seasonal, local food – and an ace breakfast
top 10s
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Oxford’s emerging craft beer scene offers a good mix of cosy, cool and chilled-out city centre pubs and bars
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Leave it up to the kids and they’d probably choose to spend every day at a waterpark. We select 10 of the wettest and wildest in the UK and Europe
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Cardiff offers great places to refuel on the cheap. Updating his 2010 guide, Tony Naylor picks 10 spots where you can eat for under £10
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Amid the waterways and warehouses of east London are the breweries and pubs that give the area its reputation as the epicentre of the UK craft beer movement
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This fun, hands-on science centre’s 4D motion ride, planetarium and theatre shows make for a jam-packed family day out. Just don’t call it a museum!
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This museum is in thrall to the wonder of words with its Narnia and other themed rooms, and a new ‘Animal’ exhibition should boost its magical appeal
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It may be small, but this Warwickshire museum celebrates the weird and wacky world of design and invention, where the only limit is your imagination
budget holidays
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In more than 100 wild corners of the UK are free shelters – bothies – for use by walkers. As the charity that runs them turns 50, Phoebe Smith, author of Book of Bothy, picks eight favourites
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Our reviewer usually shuns youth hostels, but he finds this new Nottingham pad a much better budget option than many big hotel chains
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Music lovers are in for a fine time with an eclectic array of concerts on offer in the Derbyshire spa town – and you’ll find plenty of great ales and cocktails for pre- or post-show drinks
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Few places are as ghostly and ghoulish as the Lancashire beauty spot where the notorious coven was rounded up 400 years ago for the Pendle witch trials
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The ‘Gateway to the Fens’ is hosting spooky tours in its newly opened 500-year-old vaults, but with heritage trails, classic pubs and food, it’s a fine place to visit year-round
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Autumn walking in this border region is fantastic, and the surrounding towns offer plenty of pubs, culture and, in nearby Ludlow, the region’s best restaurants
sport holidays
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The Meek family swapped mortgage, work and school for a year of adventures around the UK – their home: a caravan, their classroom: the great outdoors
restaurants
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This revamped hotel on London’s South Circular road admirably overcomes the challenges of its noisy location by getting everything else right
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Inspired by our Top 10 on station dining in Europe, Guardian readers added tips for other railway station restaurants to savour. Here’s a selection of their fine dining work
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Cable car link for Kuelap, the ‘new Machu Picchu’
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