European city breaks

[Whosthedaddy]

The wife and I have had an idea about our holiday plans next year, instead of spending 2 weeks trying to burn onself to a crisp on a beach it might be nice to have loads of smaller weekends away thoughout the year.

There are places in Europe that look worthy of a visit when flicking through magazines and on the TV, but we have no idea of what to do when we are actually there?

Any suggestions of destinations?

They cant all be dirty weekends away, so some serious, cultural suggestions to please
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[PsychoHippy]

You are asking this lot for cultural suggestions?
Don't make me laugh!
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[ram_doom]

Italy. Dont you dare go to France or your off my christmas card list France is a bit of road you have to drive on to get to your destination
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[Whosthedaddy]

[ram_doom]

What about The pyranees? Take the bike
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[PsychoHippy]

I was very impressed with the South of France this summer, there are some really nice towns to visit (Aux en Provence comes to mind), you could sample the whole 'café culture' for a few hours
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[TL666]

Amsterdam
Barcelona
Helsinki
Prague
Zurich
Coppenhagen
Munich
Rome
Venice

[Marcg868]

It may be small but its a nice little town to Visit.

Brugge in Belgium

£0.75 for Stella Artois as well.

The word Wankered summed me and my mate up when we got back on the coach to go to Zeebrugge Port
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[pwntifex]

[EuropeanNC30R...]

Rome is worth a visit, there's only one city like that as far as I know. The Italian cities are generally hard to beat for cultural stuff. Brussels okish, nice and all but nothing really standout that I could see. Madrid for legendary nightlife, San Sebastien for similar reasons and the tapas culture.

[Whosthedaddy]

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Any of the major Italian cities - Rome, Florence etc - all steeped in history and very romantic.

Amsterdam is not all seedy strip joints and coffee shops - but they're the best bits.

Also consider going to Eastern Europe - Krakow in Poland is really nice and historic with lots of very cheap food and beer, and Talinn in Estonia is the same but a bit more touristy. I won't mention the hoardes of very fit young ladies in both those places seeing as your missus will be there

[pwntifex]

Bratislava is another good one. Your money will go a very long way
79p a pint, I seem to recall.
The old town is beautiful, too.

Not too touristy, either.
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[Whosthedaddy]

[DAF]

Berlin - It's cheap enough to get there; I paid around £10 for a return flight from Stansted earlier this year and £60 for two nights in a nice hotel through Laterooms.com

History and nightlife is good and I'd recommend you do a couple of these tours whilst you're there
https://www.insidertour.com/insidertour.php/cat/2/title/The_Tours
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[yambabe]

I got taken to Barcelona for my birthday last year, (in January) and it's a lovely city. Lots of art including the Gaudi architecture and a couple of really good galleries, also a boat museum in the medieval shipyards that we went in for a laugh but turned out to be really interesting!

Cable car ride across the harbour was fun, the parks are beautiful, the food & nightlife were great (night in a pirate bar anyone? Ahoy me hearties!) and there's some pretty good shopping too.

And if you go when the weather's good it has a beach too......
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