About freeandnearby
A weekly list of free things to do, city by city, for anyone new in town or just bored of staying in.
Who makes it
freeandnearby is made by the team behind Hellohood, a free app for meeting people by doing things together. We built this list because the same question keeps coming up: “what can I do this week that doesn’t cost much, and where I won’t feel weird showing up alone?”
Where the events come from
From organisers’ own public pages: parkrun, free walking-tour companies, Meetup groups, language-exchange cafés and community spaces. We don’t run these events and nobody pays to be listed. Each event links to its organiser’s page. Please check there before you go, because times sometimes change.
What “free” means here
Free, tip-based (walking tours: pay what it was worth) or a few euros at most, like buying one drink at a language café.
Why there are only a few cities
A city is added only once we have real events there every week. We would rather have five good city pages than a hundred empty ones.
Contact
Organisers can ask for a change or removal at gethellohood.com/contact.