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Will Gompertz,

Here are my three to see for free this summer. Country: Show at New Art Centre at Roche Court in Wiltshire. My daughter loved it, especially Michael Craig-Martin 's pop-art sculptures in the landscape, the eye-catching, are surreal and amusing. Lakeside: Grizedale Arts in Coniston in the Lake District is a hidden gem, part visitor attraction artists 'residence, part. His latest project is a school for tourists with some free events. Get in touch via the website for details. Sea: marvel at Folkestone Triennial on the beach and Cornelia Parker 's Mermaid hike. And if you 't away, perhaps to just stop and look - you could use the clouds, or the constable in London, a Barbara Hepworth sculpture (on the side of John Lewis, Oxford Street) to look inspired.

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Sam West,

is hung in an old church, now the archaeology office of Bristol city council. And just to join in the spirit of things, the first five

Unbound, a series of free evening talks and gigs at the Edinburgh international book festival, held in a spiegeltent, a very pretty Dutch mirrored tent, will definitely be worth attending. Everyone appearing at Unbound is literary in some way, because they've all got something to do with the books festival itself. Performers include Irvine Welsh and Kristin Hersh, and I'll be there too, with the Pictish Trail.

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Summer evenings on a picnic blanket in the park are a staple of our London life and living between Kensington Gardens and Holland Park, we're spoilt for spots. While the background bass of booming bands can be quite obtrusive now that Hyde Park's concert season is in full swing, the opera drifting through Holland Park is all pleasure. This summer a meander among the peacocks and then a picnic to the strains of Mascagni's L'Amico Fritzis our favorite activity. The all-weather surface for the theater, no doubt installed at great expense, has reduced the little pleasure for us like uninvited - but the sound is still clear enough to the agents thrill, to feel something for nothing!

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Joe Dunthorne, Author

My family in Gower, Wales, Cornwall is like what kind of, except that to live because of the great wickedness of the Welsh Tourist Board it 's never really made a name. We 're all thankful for - it means there are a lot of very secret beaches. I 'ma beach reader and Tor Bay is the best for it. Tor has golden sand right and if you go at high tide it 's the most beautiful Hawaiian-looking small beach. Gower 's other beaches, such as Three Cliffs, are famous, but they' re more walk-y, more than a stroll through the unusual landscape. Gate is ideal for billing on your towel for a reading.

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