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What would be a good city/town to visit for a weekend, that isn't one of the obvious (ie Barcelona, Paris ect) destinations.
Rotterdam, plenty to do, and if bored, Delft and Den Haag a short hop.
Copenhagen/ Stockholm/ Bergen? All interesting Scandi cities
Leiden is also nice
Copenhagen, Bruges, Dublin are all good. Or Palma Mallorca maybe?
You can do Vienna and Bratislava in two days - only 20odd miles apart.
Ghent and Antwerp, Belgium
Following on from this thread we really enjoyed Bordeaux.
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/weekend-away-in-bordeaux-montpellier-or-somewhere-else
I like Ypres. Short distance from Calais, too. The WW1 stuff round there is really fascinating (and sobering).
Malmo
Dusseldorf
Olomouc
Madrid
Edinburgh
Nice
Iberian peninsular suggestions:
Madrid, Porto, Lisbon,
Slightly harder to get to but I've been to and enjoyed for a weekend:
Coimbra, Haro/Logroño, Peñiscola
Dpending on flights/ferries:
Bruges or Ghent
Madrid
Granada
Munich
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Strasbourg
Lille
Freiburg
Innsburck
Salzburg
Seville
Cadiz
Lisbon.
We do city beak every year to somewhere new. One of our favourites so far.
Stayed here;
I enjoyed Verona, I think you would too!
Bergamo, Tallin, Lille or Cork. One of my cousins reckons Derry is a good place to visit but she works for their tourism team.
As mentioned above but will second
Lille
Ghent
Nice
Verona
I've had to ban the Mrs from weekend breaks anywhere in France,Spain and Italy this year
so Zurich in Feb now 🙂
Strasbourg.
I've heard Freiburg is nice too, though not really a city.
Krakow, beautiful place, dirt cheap
Bologna is lovely, cheap fights generally and good food.
or following my trip to Italy last year:
Bologna
Parma
Florence
Assisi
Reykjavik, an amazing place! Geysirs, waterfalls, volcanoes, expensive alcohol 😀
Lisbon +79
Just a smashing city. Compact, cool, friendly and for a European capital, quite cheap for food, coffee, beer etc.
And Pastel de Natas - I was worried I’d turn into one after spending a few days. 😀
Pastel de Natas
You can get them in Farncombe co-op. Not worth a long weekend though.
London, when you are tired of London you’re tired of life...
Verona or Florence, good for wandering about looking at stuff and eating food. Sitting in squares drinking beer also good.
London, when you are tired of London you’re tired of life...
London is the biggest shit hole on the planet, I would rather go to Calcutta.
We go to Bordeaux every couple of months or so, plenty to do there for a weekend. Otherwise, San Sebastián, Bilbao, Girona, Granada all dead easy to get to.
London's no good, two days isn't long enough. I lived there for 12 years, so need a week there every so often to get a fix of what I miss about it, and also to remind me why I left...