With the summer-long arts festival kicking off next week, singers, artists and curators share their favourite places in Newcastle and the wider region
what to eat
Vegging out: why eating Okinawa-style is the healthy option
Okinawa in Japan is fabled for its residents’ longevity. A fact attributed to a diet of ‘major on vegetables, minor on meat’. Now the island’s restaurants are making it available to visitors, too
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Get off the motorway: the best cafes and restaurants near busy junctions (in the UK)
Jolly up the Christmas schlep by avoiding overpriced motorway services and dropping in at smaller, friendlier places serving great local produce. Selected from new motoring guide The Extra Mile
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The best towns and small cities in the US: Eugene, Oregon
Here’s a piece about Eugene, Oregon
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Sri Lanka’s perfect, crispy-edged snack – Appam
These cup-shaped pancakes are an obsession in Sri Lanka and the no-menu street cafes of Colombo do it best
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The alt city guide to York in England
It’s time for the Romans and Vikings to make way for a new insurgency in the North Yorkshire jewel: a sparky, creative scene fuelled by innovative music, food and drink outlets
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In Grandpa’s footsteps on the shores of Carlingford Lough, Ireland
Hannah Louise Summers uses a new ferry service – a lake crossing on which her grandfather once worked – to explore both sides of Carlingford Lough, which straddles the Irish border
