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Best Things to Do in Lanzarote: 21 Ideas Beyond the Resorts

Charlie Marchant — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:24:06 +0000

Lanzarote is the northernmost island in the Canary Islands. You’ll find plenty of Spanish influence here in the tapas and culture. But the island has its own distinct identity. The volcanic landscapes are unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. The architecture has its own special and sustainable style. Avoid the crowded tourist beaches and discover […]

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Best Beaches Near Lisbon (and Where Locals Go)

Charlie Marchant — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:13:24 +0000

Most travel guides will send you straight to Cascais — and Cascais is great — but the Lisbon coast isn’t one beach. It’s a string of beaches and most are reachable by train in 25 to 40 minutes. After a week based in Graça in Lisbon last this year, I headed to a few different […]

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Estepona Old Town: The Prettiest Costa del Sol Town

Charlie Marchant — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:28:07 +0000

The Costa del Sol has a reputation for being a strip of resort towns that could be anywhere and attracts mainly foreign tourists. Estepona is on the Costa del Sol coast, thirty minutes west of Marbella, is an exception. Estepona’s old town is an Andalusian casco antiguo: whitewashed lanes, flowerpots stacked up the walls in […]

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Where to Stay in Málaga: Best Areas and Neighbourhoods

Charlie Marchant — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:10:37 +0000

Málaga is small enough that no area is really a bad choice, and different enough between neighbourhoods that the choice still matters. The old town is walkable and loud. The beach neighbourhoods are quieter and further out. And twenty minutes east there is a stretch of old fishing village that most visitors never see. Here […]

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Is Málaga Expensive? What a Week in the City Costs

Charlie Marchant — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:10:33 +0000

Málaga was not as expensive as we thought. We spent a weekend and working week in Málaga, exploring the city on our days off and in the evenings. We ate out, but we also bought groceries and cooked in. We found our coffee shops, but also had a few coffees at our apartment. Málaga is […]

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The Best Things to Do in Málaga, Spain

Charlie Marchant — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:10:27 +0000

We spent a week in Málaga, working on weekdays and getting out into the city in the evenings, before heading down the coast to Estepona for a few days with Luke’s family. It was a good way to see the city, plenty of early morning coffees and evening walks. Málaga gets written off as the […]

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Best Wine Bars in Brighton — Where We Drink (2026)

Charlie Marchant — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:19:32 +0000

The best wine bars in Brighton are across the city and to a mile west along Church Road and Western Road in Hove. Brighton and Hove sits in the middle of English wine country and it draws exactly the kind of small, opinionated, independent places that take wine seriously. These are the wine bars Luke […]

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Best Independent Coffee Shops in Brighton and Hove (2026)

Charlie Marchant — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:40:00 +0000

Brighton and Hove’s independent coffee scene is one of the better things about living here. Forget Starbucks, Costa and Nero — you can get your caffeine fix and put your money into a local business at the same time, and in most of these places the person making your flat white knows exactly where the […]

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Sussex Vineyards With Restaurants: Where To Eat Among the Vines (2026)

Charlie Marchant — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:14:26 +0000

Sussex vineyards with restaurants turn an afternoon tasting into a wonderful day out. Eating at a vineyard is a different proposition to eating anywhere else: the wine list is about eight bottles long, all of it made roughly two hundred metres from your table, and the vine views make the experience. Sussex has more of […]

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Cuckmere Haven: The Valley Walk That Skips the Seven Sisters Crowds (2026)

Charlie Marchant — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:12:36 +0000

Everybody who gets the bus out to Seven Sisters Country Park turns right, walks to the sea, and photographs the cliffs. They are spectacular after all. But there’s a hidden gem walk if you turn left. The Alfriston and River Cuckmere circular starts from exactly the same visitor centre, takes in the meandering river, a […]

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