Inspiring travel tips from the Cool Places team

Nowt so queer as Urban Folk

Moseley Folk Festival

It's party time in Leeds

Leeds is gearing up for two huge but very different parties that cap the summer every year in Yorkshire’s buzziest city.

Bristol International Balloon Fiesta

Win a copy of the Rough Guide to Britain

Rough Guide to Britain giveaway

England's Golf Coast

The best places to play during the British Open

Find a Flavour of the West

What makes the perfect cake? Author Sarah Baxter finds out at the Flavours of the West festival in Bath.

Stunning Rides

Five Great Routes for British Bike Week

Stuff the Jubilee

If you really do want to stuff the Jubilee, get out of Windsor.

The drinker's guide to the Edinburgh Marathon

A pub crawl along the route Edinburgh Marathon route

The Best Green Places to Stay

Great places to stay that are green - and cool.

Getting to grips in Grasmere

It’s that time of year again, when World Champions are declared in the small Lake District village of Grasmere.

Win a Lake District Minibreak for Two!

Boscombe: Britain’s best urban beach

Even when the sea is as flat as a pancake, the lack of a reef hasn’t stopped Boscombe from becoming Britain’s best urban beach.

Coasteering on Sark

The Golden Age of Travel

Travelling to Ascot on the Orient Express

The Art of Seeing

Drawing workshops with Context Travel

Wychwood Festival

One of the best family events in the country.

Cotswolds Olimpicks

London may be on the eve of it’s 3rd Olympic Games, Chipping Campden however is about to host its 400th.

Olympic Flames come to Cornwall

The Olympic Torch Relay begins.

Mountain biking in the Tweed Valley

Mountain Biking in the Scottish Borders

Licence to be nosy

Heritage Open Days 2012

London's Best Lidos

Speed of Light

Speed of Light Festival at the Edinburgh Festival

Setjetting: Gangster London with Nick the Greek

Gangster tours of London

Summer in the City

Where better to enjoy the bank holiday weekend than a London beer garden?

Great Glen Canoe Trail

Thanks to the new Great Glen Canoe Trail you can now head out in search of Nessie at paddle height.

Va Va Voom – It's the Wales Coastal Path!

Linking into Offa’s Dyke Path, you can now circumnavigate all of Wales on public footpaths.

Ways with Words

This July the gorgeous Dartington Hall estate in Devon plays host to the 21st Ways with Words festival.

The art of food: St Ives Food & Drink Festival

Now a firm fixture on Cornwall's culinary calendar.

The Fowey Festival of Words and Music

Fowey Festival of Words and Music, Cornwall