Best European city for weekend break?

[mark st1]

A Skiverpool fan going to Europe there must be a joke in there somewhere

 

[StuAff]

Prague - amazing architecture and a truly great city in the winter; it's cheap beer-wise too.

+1. Been in March, it looked fantastic in the snow. Well, it looks fantastic, full stop. Lots of great museums, culture, some great restaurants.

Also Warsaw. Thanks to the Wehrmacht the vast majority of the city centre is a 1950s reconstruction, and looks it, but still a fab place.

 

[slowmotion]

I forgot! Granada! Everybody ought to visit the Alhambra at least once. You might even be able to get in some skiing.

 

[defy-one]

LONDON ... The majority of people aren't English,but everyone speaks cockney,you can eat cheap or at the Ritz and there is lots to see.

 

[snorri]

Edinburgh, Hamburg or Copenhagen .

 

[bianchi1]

Bruges. Beautiful city, great beer and cheep cycle hire. Lovely cycle paths along the canals to the coast if you so desire. It's hard to drag yourself away from the beer tho!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Guggenheim= Bilbao surely? scene of my stag-do - a great city also

a wild card might be A Coruna - been there a couple of times and it's not so big, but really nice, some great food. Oh and Gijon is tremendous fun, had some great nights there.

Sorry, correct ... my brain's totally gone ....

 

[Fab Foodie]

I went to riga in March. Too cold for sightseeing at that time of year really, but its a nice place.

I went to Chicago for a long weekend in Feb when I was 40, m uch the same, but wrap-up warm and even the frozen places have a special charm.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I went to Chicago for a long weekend in Feb when I was 40, m uch the same, but wrap-up warm and even the frozen places have a special charm.

Lots of good music venues too, we got it wrong in the first place we went to, dreadful pretentious up their own jacksies jazzers but ended up in a great bar with an excellent blues band.

 

[The Jogger]

Bruges. Beautiful city, great beer and cheep cycle hire. Lovely cycle paths along the canals to the coast if you so desire. It's hard to drag yourself away from the beer tho!

Although I agree with what you say, we found the food not so good and the people were generally , well , they spoke........

 

[asterix]

. Barcelona is a pick-pocket's paradise so we're giving that a miss for that reason, despite its other myriad pleasures.

I am glad you said that. It's the only place in the world where someone managed to steal my wallet.

Anyway, if it was me I'd seriously consider Istanbul. Never been there but when I did visit Turkey (Anatolia) I found the inhabitants easy to get along with and the country is a gateway to another culture.

 

[mangaman]

Another vote for Valencia. Fabulous place, although when you see all of the Calatrava buildings you wonder how they didn't manage to bankrupt themselves years ago. Also, don't go during Fallas if you intend to sleep at any point.

I think Valencia did bankrupt itself - and is taking Spain with it!

Agree - it is fantastic though.

Grenada or Seville are nice - Seville is lovely, probably has more night life and I believe is has warmest climate in Europe.

 

[PaulB]

Santiago de Compostela... and book into the Parador for the 'wow factor'. Some of the best seafood on the face of the earth and direct flights from Manchester and Liverpool.

Or Bilbao. Flights from Manchester or Liverpool. The Guggenheim, good food and music.

That sounds fanTAStic, that does. Along with Turks, get on the right side of them and the Basques are my favourite people outside of Northern England and the place is just magnificent. These are now on a short-list of two. Santiago would have won outright but for the average rainfall being more than double that of Bilbao but that Parador hotel may yet swing it for Jimmy's.

 

[The Jogger]

I suppose it depends on how your taste buds are and your bench mark. The salmon I had in one restaurant was over cooked and dry, we went for a pub lunch in a nearby village, tasteless and that evening we thought we wouldn't risk it and went for Italian, they'd obviously been there too long but we did find a spectacular tea room for breakfast now that would be even worth going back for.......

 

[Large]

Big cities? Dublin, Edinburgh, Munich.

Smaller places? Biarritz, Parma, San Sebastian, Salzburg, Carcassonne

Off-the-Wall? Treviso (mini-venice), Krakow, Gibraltar.