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Sunset at Avebury ❤️ Date 94

Avebury · Marlborough

Sunset at Avebury

Drive out to a stone circle bigger than Stonehenge and watch the sun go down over it.

  • 45 min
  • £0
  • Easy
Sunset on Caversham Bridge ❤️ Date 94

Caversham Bridge · Reading

Sunset on Caversham Bridge

Watch the Thames turn gold from the middle of the bridge.

  • 30 min
  • £0
  • Easy
Harbourside Sunset ❤️ Date 91

Millennium Square · Bristol

Harbourside Sunset

Watch the sun go down over Bristol's floating harbour, drink in hand.

  • 40 min
  • £
  • Easy
Quayside Golden Hour ❤️ Date 90

MediaCityUK · Manchester

Quayside Golden Hour

Watch the sun set over the water at MediaCityUK.

  • 40 min
  • £0
  • Easy
Trout Inn Sunset ❤️ Date 88

Wolvercote · Oxford

Trout Inn Sunset

Watch the sunset over the Thames from the terrace of Oxford's most famous riverside pub.

  • 45 min
  • £
  • Easy
Forty Minutes on the Thames ❤️ Date 88

Barry Avenue · Windsor

Forty Minutes on the Thames

Take a boat trip past the castle, the college, and Boveney Lock.

  • 45 min
  • ££
  • Easy
Punt for Two ❤️ Date 87

Cherwell Boathouse · Oxford

Punt for Two

Hire a punt at Cherwell Boathouse and let one of you do all the work while the other enjoys the view.

  • 60 min
  • ££
  • Easy
Alexandra Gardens, Slowly ❤️ Date 87

Alexandra Gardens · Windsor

Alexandra Gardens, Slowly

A riverside bench, twenty quiet minutes, no agenda.

  • 25 min
  • £0
  • Easy
Soak Above the Skyline ❤️ Date 85

Hot Bath Street · Bath

Soak Above the Skyline

Swim in the only natural hot spring water in Britain you're actually allowed to get into.

  • 60 min
  • £££
  • Easy
Barton Arcade Window Wander ❤️ Date 85

St Ann's Square · Manchester

Barton Arcade Window Wander

Find the glass-roofed Victorian arcade tucked behind St Ann's Square.

  • 20 min
  • £0
  • Easy
Riverside Picnic, Lower Slaughter ❤️ Date 79

Lower Slaughter · The Cotswolds

Riverside Picnic, Lower Slaughter

Spread a blanket by the River Eye and do absolutely nothing for twenty minutes.

  • 40 min
  • £
  • Easy
Ashmolean Rooftop View ❤️ Date 85

Beaumont Street · Oxford

Ashmolean Rooftop View

Skip the galleries and go straight up — the Ashmolean's rooftop terrace has one of the best views in Oxford.

  • 40 min
  • £
  • Easy

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