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  • Santa Margarida volcano, near Barcelona

    Readers' travel tips
    ‘We hiked green volcanoes near Barcelona’: readers’ favourite day trips from cities

    Our tipsters revel in rural escapes and dips in the sea on their city breaks from Gdańsk to Lisbon
  • cartoon of slippers with plants and butterfly

    You be the judge
    Should my husband stop wearing his slippers outside the house?

    Jim thinks it’s fine to wear his slippers in the garden (and the bedroom), but Mindy’s looking out for her carpets. Who’s stepping out of line?
  • Pip and Steve in Chicago, on the Skydeck, 2022.

    How we met
    ‘We wobbled into each other for a hug and kiss. I always say I walk like a drunken camel’

    Pip, 55, and Steve, 53, met through a Facebook dating group for people with hereditary spastic paraplegia. Despite living on opposite sides of the Atlantic, they fell in love
  • woman putting on suncream

    Slather it on
    Seven things dermatologists want you to know about sunscreen

    Keep your cool when it’s hot out there by picking the ideal sunscreen. Use loads more than you think you need – and follow a tennis star’s two-hour rule
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    • A 10-year-old girl hangs from the bars in a playground while her eight-year-old brother sits on the equipment behind her.

      Euro visions
      How to be a Norwegian parent: let your kids roam free, stay home alone, have fun – and fail

    • Two men sitting at a restaurant table and turning to smile at the camera

      Dining across the divide
      ‘I voted leave. In my industry, Brexit was quite beneficial’

    • Ravinder Bhogal's sticky five-spice sausages with cherries. 225

      Summer food and drink
      Sticky sausages, soft cheese and crumble cake: Ravinder Bhogal’s recipes for summer cherries

    • A figure holding a light while another cringes behind prison bars

      Leading questions
      I feel despair about the state of the world. How can I find the courage to not abandon hope?

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Fashion

  • Model in yellow dress and sunglasses with a gold bag and sandals

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Dressing for a wedding? The rules have changed

    Wearing a hat, avoiding white and dialling down the sexiness are no longer mandatory. Instead take inspiration from the bridal couple’s style cues
  • Sali Hughes greenhouse fragrance column

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Vegetal scents make for the perfect summer fragrance, whatever the weather

  • Jeremy Allen White as Carmy in The Bear.

    Fashion Statement newsletter
    Rules out for summer: the unstoppable rise of ‘non-negotiables’

  • People standing in a room with a large image of a model in a white dress on the wall

    Vogue
    Immersive show lifts curtain on catwalks past and present

  • Orange Viscose Île de Ré Dress, £195 chintiandparker.com

    We Love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

  • Nell Frizell wearing her take on sports attire …

    Fitness
    Throw off your sports bra! Run in an old T-shirt! Why I shun expensive workout gear

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Food

  • Felicity Cloake's macarons.

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make chocolate macarons – recipe

    A step-by-step guide to making these chewy-crisp, airy little meringue-like sandwiches
  • Claude Bosi’s classic French recipes For Bastille Day.

    French food and drink
    Wine-poached eggs, lemony sole and puffed potatoes: Claude Bosi’s classic French recipes for Bastille Day

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Health & wellbeing

  • An illustration showing silhouettes of a man smoking, a woman drinking, hands holding a pot of sunscreen, a knife, fork and spoon and a white ribbon

    The experts: oncologists on the simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer

  • Illustration of woman running past people waiting at a bus stop that is in front of big letters saying 5am

    The cult of 5am: is rising at dawn the secret of health and happiness?

    • friends in casual summer wear lying in circle on the colourful rug in the park having fun and making a group selfie

      Head lice are everywhere. Are selfies to blame?

    • Phil Daoust, holding an ice-cream cone, reclines in a deckchair in the park in the sunshine

      Do be a quitter! How I broke my exercise streak – and smashed my fitness goals

    • Emma Beddington

      I am sober curious – but a little alcohol is still valuable to me

      Emma Beddington
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  • Mother helping son packing to move out from parent's home

    From study prep to packing crockery
    An expert checklist for starting university

  • Shot of an female university student reading a textbook in her room

    ‘Homesickness can hit any time’
    How to cope with loneliness at university

  • Sausage meatballs and spaghetti.

    Full for a fiver
    Three easy-to-cook recipes on a student budget

  • A young man reading the product description while shopping for groceries in his local supermarket.

    Be frugal, have fun, stay focused
    How to make ends meet as a student

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Relationships

  • Pip and Steve in Chicago, on the Skydeck, 2022.

    How we met
    How we met: ‘We wobbled into each other for a hug and kiss. I always say I walk like a drunken camel’

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    Ask Philippa
    I’m a failure and in debt. And now my partner is pregnant

  • Composite of an older woman resting her head on an older man’s bare chest

    Sexual healing
    I’m struggling to enjoy foreplay – but I want more from sex than just penetration

  • Illustration of a man and a woman with their arms folded.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    Our place is a mess, but my partner and I still can’t agree who does which chores

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Every Saturday, Weekend will bring you the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, including celebrity interviews, lifestyle features and opinion.

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Travel

  • Santa Margarida volcano, near Barcelona

    Readers' tips
    ‘We hiked green volcanoes near Barcelona’: favourite day trips from cities

    Our tipsters revel in rural escapes and dips in the sea on their city breaks from Gdańsk to Lisbon
  • Aerial panoramic view of Wroclaw Market Square. Wroclaw, Poland, Europe

    London to Vilnius
    My rail odyssey to the Baltics

  • Aerial view of the ruins of Grosmont Castle.

    Wales
    Three castles, three days, three writers in border country

  • Writer Ailsa in the cold bath

    Wellbeing
    From a sauna to an ice bath in Scotland: my full immersion in hot and cold therapy

  • Calanoa Amazonas Birding Mocagua Lagoon

    Amazon
    ‘There are forms of life here that I never knew existed’

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    Win a holiday!
    Tell us about your favourite places to eat at the British seaside

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Money

  • Dart charge 'do not ignore' penalty notice.

    Consumer champions
    Dartford Crossing charge firm told me not to pay, but still fined me £2,230

    Despite being told there was ‘no crossing to be paid’, a driver received 23 penalty notices
  • 100 dollar bill frozen in ice cube

    Cryonics
    You can take it with you! The billionaires freezing themselves for another chance at life – and riches

  • Spectators wait to watch a Wimbledon match.

    Consumer champions
    Wimbledon’s service was at fault over ticket name change

  • Money
    I’ve been denied carer’s allowance for eight months after I owned up to a job

  • Consumer rights
    Vrbo’s luxury property bore no relation to the listing

  • Money
    Our car was no longer driveable after valet parking at Gatwick

  • Consumer champions
    Sparks fly as M&S says no to a plastic loyalty card

  • Life and style
    ‘I must have saved at least £100!’ Three writers try the no-spend challenge

  • Your problems, with Anna Tims
    A stranger seems to have taken over our address

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Puzzles

  • Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner in a supermarket in April

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: which cabinet members will crosswords favour?

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,433

    • Quick crosswords
      Quick crossword No 16,906

    • Sudoku
      Sudoku 6,546 hard

    • Prize crosswords
      Prize crossword No 29,428

    • Killer sudoku
      Observer killer sudoku

    • Thomas Eaton
      What links Ana de Armas with Gloria Estefan? The Saturday quiz

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? Simple puzzles almost everybody gets wrong

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    ‘Will I just disappear?’ Laura Marling on the ecstasy of motherhood – and why she might quit music

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The big picture

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    Game, set, match: what to wear to Wimbledon

    As Emma Raducanu and Jannik Sinner head to Centre Court, our styling editor suggests how to ace your viewing attire
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