From castles and street festivals to photo walks and portfolio reviews, the UK has hundreds of low-cost activities and resources to keep you inspired and active all year round. Tracy Calder chooses 40 of the best

Where can you see the Golden Boys and the Floozie in the Jacuzzi, stroll around Gas Street Basin or stand on a rooftop garden admiring an eclectic architectural skyline? Birmingham! Probably not every

If you watched the latest series of BBC Interior Design Masters, you’ll remember judges Michelle Ogundehin, Alan Carr and Sophie Robinson all came to Portmeirion for the final episode in which John an

Looming over the city from up high and lit up in dramatic red lights at night, Edinburgh Castle looks like it could be straight out of a Traitors scene. Tickets (£21.50 for adults) get you access to a

A superb spa, award-winning sport facilities and spectacular Cheshire countryside – this wonderful escape has it all

Guess where we went last summer? A two-week tour that took in the UK’s first Dark Sky Park, also its largest forest, the world’s smallest post office, the First World War’s largest munitions factory,