City breaks - where's good to go?

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City breaks - where's good to go?

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MartynS - Member

Amsterdam or Rome

Just back from Amsterdam our 3rd visit, Went out to kukkenhof (tulip/garden place.. was very nice!)
Mooched round the city, had Fondue at Cafe Bern (a must do, but you need to book!)Picnic in Vondlepark. Ann Frank house, Van Gogh Museum, and a quick bike ride round the city. Dutch are brilliant, really helpful and friendly, whats not to like

Rome. A bonkers busy Italian city with a monument you recognize on every corner. VERY expensive. Collusium has a real atmosphere about it.

Posted 1 year ago #
deadlydarcy - Member

I'm going to Amsterdam for Queens Day at the end of April

On a stag do

With a bunch of late thirties/early forties blokes

I feel like I'm part of the biggest cliché ever. Meh.

Hopefully I'll be able to shneak away for a bit of it - I don't fancy the evening entertainment that's being lined up.

Posted 1 year ago #
Stoner - Member

I know what you mean DD.

10 yrs ago I was on a european tour with American clients. Last city was Amsterdam and they hadnt been before and wanted to experience the "cliches".

Nurse-maiding 3 stoned yanks and then having to sit through the freakiest of sex shows with them....

About as much fun as a novocaine w_nk.

Posted 1 year ago #
trailmonkey - Member

Venice is amazing, avoid San Marco etc and head for the real Venice that lies behind it. Don't watch ' Don't Look Now' before you go.

Seville and Cordoba would be Spanish choices with Madrid over Barcelona if you can only get a flight to either of those.

If it's France then my choice would be Nimes and Arles. Great climate at this time of year and an abundance of Roman antiquities. The nearby medieavel spice town of Uzes is well worth a visit too.

Posted 1 year ago #
deadlydarcy - Member

Ewww...I can imagine. I guess you had no choice. Thing is, this will be my first time in Amsterdam. It was the last city my mum and dad visited together and I was always looking forward to visiting - goodness knows why I haven't got round to it yet...duh.

While I am big and ugly enough to do my own thing - there's a fine balance between going along with the group and putting one's foot down...and coming across as a coq.

****' wedding's costing me a fortune.

Better do a cash job

Posted 1 year ago #
deadlydarcy - Member

Nicest thing about going to other European cities (apart from any in Oireland): sitting outside/inside cafe bars drinking small beers that stay cold and still feeling like a man.

Posted 1 year ago #
Stoner - Member

Def you'd like Lisbon.

Super Bock or Sagres by the small flute, out in the street, under the shade of palm trees.

And a great night life.

I think my favourite Euro Capital Cities have all been covered but prob go something like:

Lisbon
Stockholm
Berlin
London (if you know it well and can avoid the rip offs and tourist traps)
Cagliari (Sardinia. Very like Lisbon really)

Posted 1 year ago #
spasmic gherkin - Member

Oslo's a lovely place, and easily the friendliest i've been to.

I managed to get split off from friends, couldn't remember their address and spent ten hours wandering the streets on a friday night. Mooching around, the locals were chatty (and spoke great english, making me ever so ashamed of having no norwegian) and ever so helpful trying to give me directions - even the security guard who threw me out of the train station i tried to sleep in was immensely courteous about it. By all accounts i was in one of the ghettos when i finally got back in touch with friends - it was nicer than home!

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Barney_McGrew - Member

We do a lot of cruises for our holidays and have done many around Europe so get to see a snapshot of a lot of cities.
My favourite was undoubtably Italy and Croatia. It was my wife that fancied Italy and tbh I had no interest whatsoever in going. LOVED IT! Florence and Rome are utterly stunning with so much to see it can be overwhelming at times. It was however the one place I had biggest preconceptions about that won me over. Venice! We're booked to go back. We had 1 1/2 days there and I was just blown away. I had it in my mind it was going to be all romantic and generally annoying but I have to admit it is up there as one of the best places I've ever been to. I could just have spent the whole day going up and down the Grand Canal on the Vaporetto (water bus.)
There is undoubtably the romantic side to the city but there is so much more besides. I think it would make an ideal destination for an anniversary trip.

I'd have to agree with Hora on Barcelona, we were so disappointed with it.
Dubrovnik is also worth a look. Don't know what the flight times are like but it was a beautiful place with lots of history.
I was at a retirement smoker in Tallinn last month and it is indeed a beautiful city. A nice place for a break but I wouldn't rush back.

Posted 1 year ago #
DrJ - Member

Can't believe no-ones mentioned Copenhagen. Spectacular architecture, fantastic beer, good museums, beautiful harbour, full of drop-dead-gorgeous girls. What's not to like?

Posted 1 year ago #
iDave - Member

Copenhagen

Posted 1 year ago #
deadlydarcy - Member

Where iDave goes, I follow...

So it looks like Copenhagen for me too

Posted 1 year ago #
konabunny - Member

Prague, Krakow are great but for something a bit different try Budapest - we loved it!

Or...Krakow for a couple of days then overnight sleeper train to Budapest.

Outside suggestion: St Petersburg. Pro: not overrun with stags, more historic stuff than you can shake a shitty stick at, relatively easy to get around the bits you'll need to get around with public transport, white nights if you go at right time of year! Con: not very set up for foreign tourists, not very cheap, visa requires a little planning (www.visahouse.ru for invitation).

Posted 1 year ago #