Celebrate World Book Day with the Book of York!
But explore a little further, and there are lesser showcased charms throughout this wondrous city. Bubbling beneath the surface are an abundance of independent shops, ven...
Lockdown Shopping in York: The Local Survival Guide
And so here it is: the Local Survival Guide is an online resource designed to showcase the fantastic local gems on your doorstep and how to transact with them from a dist...
Fun Days Out in Scarborough
Perhaps Yorkshire’s most famous coastal town, Scarborough emits a character quite unlike any other. Spanning a glorious coastline on which two bays of sandy beaches spr...
Fun Days Out in Pickering
One of the most popular and attractive visits in between the city of York and the coastline of East Yorkshire is the market town of Pickering. Positioned on the edge of t...
Fun Days Out in Easingwold
Easingwold is a small and quiet market town 13 miles outside of York, on the way to the North Yorks Moors, that is rarely celebrated beyond its own 5000 inhabitants. But ...
Fun Days Out in Malton
Where would you think the food capital of Yorkshire to be? Leeds, with its metropolitan, cosmopolitan array of restaurants? Or York, with its traditional home-cooked char...
Fun Days Out in York and Surrounding
All around the city of York we are blessed with an array of amazing places to visit. From countryside to seaside, market towns to moors, there is a marvellous mixture rig...
How to Make the Most of York’s Viking Festival this February
On November 1st 866AD the city of York was invaded by Vikings. Upon conquering Northern England, the renamed Jorvik became the capital of a new Viking kingdom. The city ...
Fall in Love with York’s Great Outdoors this Valentine’s Day
When it comes to Valentine’s Day, are you a celebrator or a cynic? Do you buy into the romance and buy up the gifts or do you opt out of commercialism and opt to ignore...
Make the Most of York’s Comic Con Weekend
As comic lovers visit the city from near and far to take in the diverse delights of the day - this time themed ‘Hunters, German Commanders and Creatures’ and includin...
Say I Do: How to Make the Most of York’s Wedding Fayre Weekends
Many couples take this day beyond the event and into the city. York has an essence which lends itself to romance, and as such there are a variety of places that are apt t...
Rounding off 2019: The Best of Independent Life York
As one year ends and another begins, it is often a time for reflection. To gaze back at seasons past, at achievements, at regrets, and at where it has brought us in the p...
Independent Festivities: Making the Most of the Christmas in York
Luckily for us, in and around York, you can find a whole heap of things to do and places to see during the days between Christmas and new year which often seem to blur in...
Independent Festivities: Days out in York with Grandparents this Christmas
In this list, we’re giving you the chance to do exactly that; get as many generations of the family as you can out the house and make the most of these festive days tog...
Independent Festivities: Days Out in York with Friends this Christmas
And just like that, it’s Christmas again.
Now is often the time may of us begin to feel a panic slowly simmering; a panic of how we can switch up the usual Christmas...
Independent Festivities: Days Out in York with Kids this Christmas
If it’s a Christmas play, or perhaps just an interval ice cream, which puts an excitable grin on the kids’ faces, then we’ve got just the line-up of performances an...
Best Historic Market Towns to Visit Near York
Words: Georgie Pridden [insta] @georgie_pridden Heading north out of York, Moors bound or to the East Coast, there are a host of cultural, culinary and shopping experie...
Irie Vibes and Zulu Swarm: York and Leeds DJs Select their Favourite Songs
Words: Zulu Swarm & Irie Vibes [insta] @irievibesyork Irie Vibes and Zulu Swarm are soundsystem collectives in York and Leeds respectively. With a mutual love of regg...
York’s Biggest Attractions to Visit this Christmas
Christmas is a time for family, and for some members of the family, a time to keep the rest of the family entertained. What to do? Well, thankfully, plenty of Yorkshire p...
The Biggest Outdoor Ice Trail in the UK
York Ice Trail is a unique event that has become excitedly anticipated by thousands of people of all ages for some early annual fun! The announcement of the 2020 ice trai...
Best Family Days Out in York this Autumn
Getting the kids out of the house is not always easy, especially as the temperature outside begins to drop and the first frosts of the year begin to set in. However, desp...
Best Independent Neighbourhoods: Stonegate, Blake Street, Lendal and St. Helen’s Square
After five years of growing success on Fossgate, the pair decided to open a second branch on Lendal, in the hopes that their new coffee shop will do for Lendal what the o...
Best Bonfire Night and Firework Displays in York
Autumn has now cloaked our landscape, and in its grasp our nights are darker, colder and distinctly cosier. While the summer days in the sun are lovely, they don’t quit...
Best Independent Neighbourhoods: Shambles & Little Shambles
From food and drink to shopping and lifestyle, here we take a look at just how much the Shambles has to offer, introducing you to the doers, bakers, and miniature ghost m...
