Where's nice in October?

I’ve been working away from home for 18 months and I’m having the first 2 weeks of October off when I finish this job

We want to go away somewhere warm and sunny, cheapish, relaxing, nice grub, not too long a flight. Not a chavvy clubbing area either.

Any ideas?

With or without bikes? Canary Islands are pretty nice at that time of year.

Southsea is lovely at this time of year 😯

We are going to Majorca – Pollensa. Should still be nice and only 2 hour flight and cheapish…

Madeira

Maeira’s lovely, m’dear.

Quiet? Yep.
Seriously, they turn off all the lights about 9pm. 🙂
The two national dishes are fish & chips & kebabs.
I kid you not. They do them very nicely though.

Scare yourself stupid walking the levadas during the day, chill out in an authentic, 70’s style restaurant at night. 😀

Honestly, if it had sandy beaches & more bike hire it’d be perfect.

mid italy and down is very very nice thru till mid november at least IME. .. and oh, the food 🙂

Malaga airport then bugger off up into the Sierra Nevada, and/or go to Granada.

We’ve done two weeks in Portugal very successfully, used Lisbon as a base for urban / rural combo, town for a week with bit of self-catered countryside for a week (rent a studio apartment in town and small villa in country).

Sicily’s still warm and has charm by the bucketload.

North Africa (Tunisia, Egypt) if you’re happy to lounge and / or any female members are thick-skinned if you like to venture out.

Turkey, Greece…

Think you’re pretty safe still in October for most of the southern Med basically.

+1 for Malaga / Granada – another successful trip. Was really very pleasantly surprised at how nice Malaga old town is. We just did a night on the way back to the airport but wished we’d spent a few days there.