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Sail from Southampton, Portsmouth, Newcastle or Liverpool in search of the Aurora Borealis over Arctic Norway - no flights, no light pollution, and a ship that ...

The National Railway Museum is free and sits next to the station, which makes York close to the perfect day out by train with children.

Guided holidays built entirely around solo travellers - your own room guaranteed, no single supplement games, and everyone on the tour is travelling solo too.

Underground air raid shelters cut into the sandstone, a Tudor hall in its own park, and a viaduct that dominates the whole town.

A free museum in a Victorian mansion, three good parks and a hill with a tower on it. All within reach of one of the finest station frontages in Britain.

Kelvingrove and the Riverside Museum are both free and both brilliant, and that is before you reach the parks.

A national museum with a roof terrace, an extinct volcano you can climb, and a free museum devoted entirely to childhood.

Two beaches, a harbour, rock pools and a boating lake. The classic British seaside day, and most of it costs nothing.

Every Hull museum is free, and the Maritime Museum has just reopened after a twenty million pound rebuild.

A free museum with a stuffed polar bear, free botanical gardens and more green space per person than most British cities.