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The Weekend Tourist is a blog written by Jess Friend Bartlett. Sometimes we only do touristy things on holiday - 25 days annual leave a year. That’s a shame, as we’ve 104 weekend days for exploring. This blog is all about discovering your local neighbourhood, attractions, historic places, local eateries and independents, which for me is in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and the wider Cotswolds, UK. And when annual leave adds up, you'll find the occasional far flung adventure.

A night at the Indie Beer Can Festival

A night at the Indie Beer Can Festival

One of the definite perks of working in PR is the variety of things you work on and the interesting places you get to see and visit. That’s definitely the case with the Indie Beer…

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A night at the Indie Beer Can Festival

One of the definite perks of working in PR is the variety of things you work on and the interesting places you get to see and visit. That’s definitely the case with the Indie Beer…

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Walking with cavemen at Grotto Pech Merle

Walking with cavemen at Grotto Pech Merle

The Grotto Pech Merle near Cabrerets is about 20 minutes from Cahors, in the Lot region of France. It’s also about an 1 hour 20 minute drive from where we were staying at the Le…

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Discover Montaigu de Quercy

Discover Montaigu de Quercy

Travel  |  Montaigu de Quercy

Montaigu de Quercy sneaks in to the Tarn Et Garonne district of Southern France and lies just short of the Lot et Garonne départements, both part of the larger Aquitaine region. We were lucky enough…

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Discover Montaigu de Quercy

Travel  |  Montaigu de Quercy

Montaigu de Quercy sneaks in to the Tarn Et Garonne district of Southern France and lies just short of the Lot et Garonne départements, both part of the larger Aquitaine region. We were lucky enough…

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A weekend at ChipLitFest

A weekend at ChipLitFest

We spent last weekend at ChipLitFest, otherwise known as the Chipping Norton Literary Festival, a four day festival that brings the great and the good of the literary world to the gateway of the Cotswolds.…

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A weekend at ChipLitFest

We spent last weekend at ChipLitFest, otherwise known as the Chipping Norton Literary Festival, a four day festival that brings the great and the good of the literary world to the gateway of the Cotswolds.…

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The Perch Inn launches Spring menu!

The Perch Inn launches Spring menu!

We loved our trip to the Perch Inn in Binsey, Oxford back in March and we were thrilled to be invited back for their bloggers launch of the new Spring menu. (It’s official we are…

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The Perch Inn launches Spring menu!

We loved our trip to the Perch Inn in Binsey, Oxford back in March and we were thrilled to be invited back for their bloggers launch of the new Spring menu. (It’s official we are…

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The White Horse, Duns Tew – go for the Korean chicken wings!

The White Horse, Duns Tew – go for the Korean chicken wings!

As the weekend beckons, I felt that it was about time to share another great foodie haunt in the Cotswolds. On our last bank holiday, Tom and I headed to the White Horse in Duns…

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The White Horse, Duns Tew – go for the Korean chicken wings!

As the weekend beckons, I felt that it was about time to share another great foodie haunt in the Cotswolds. On our last bank holiday, Tom and I headed to the White Horse in Duns…

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