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Date ideas, place by place

Proper local picks, not scraped lists. Every guide is somewhere we know, with rain-proof ideas included because, well, it rains.

Find your townWhat kind of date?

The Barras market's green sheds with red shutters on a sunny morningGlasgow
The Prince Charles Cinema's front on a sunny day, its sign reading "Sod the sunshine, come sit in the dark" above the entranceSoho and Covent Garden
The ornate Victorian stone front of the Morgan Arcade, with shop windows below and the arcade's entrance in the middleCardiff
Inside the Crown, a row of carved wooden snugs with stained glass panels down one side of a long bar under a patterned ceilingBelfast
Photos: The Barras, Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped and resized); Prince Charles Cinema, LavaLampBamboo, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped and resized); The arcades and Spillers Records, Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped and resized); The Crown Liquor Saloon, Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 (resized).

What kind of date?

Start with the mood, then find a place that does it well.

Pick a place

England

Seaside piers, cathedral cities and proper pubs.

London

One big city, so a guide for each corner of it.

Scotland

Castles, hills, beaches and somewhere warm after.

Wales

Castles, coast and a good few arcades.

Northern Ireland

Old pubs, a big shipyard and a coast worth the drive.

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