city breaks in europe

[QueenOfGoths]

My recommendations would be, in no particular order

Istanbul
Bruges
Krakow
Prague
Gdansk
Tallinn

All have a good mix of history, culture, good food and beer and all are good places for single travellers

 

[Stanley Edwards]

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Barcalona and granada are both good i suspect the town with the airport neat granada is alos good i had a whistle stop tour round before my flight home...

I'm not a Barcelona fan. The town with the airport serving Granada is Santa Fe. Nice enough, but nothing special and obviously lots of air traffic noise. It does have natural hot springs.

The nice thing about Granada airport is a very fast check-out. From landing, on the €3 bus for a 40 minute ride into the centre. Important on weekend breaks.

Highly recommend Santiago de Compostela and Leon in Spain also. San Sebastian is a very nice holiday seaside resort also.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

You will find Copenhagen very expensive.

 

[clicker]

If you're not fussed about blazing sunshine, how about Galway...Shannon airport well located. Galway teeming with music and art. Fantastic beaches and wonderful surrounding countryside.

 

[Bajie]

Krakow is a great place to visit because there is a simple tourist trend that hardly any foreign visitor ventures out of the old town 'market square' part of the town, and within 40 minutes walking distance there are loads of interesting historical and cultural places to visit, which admittedly do have a lot of tourists in the holiday season, but mostly polish ones.

Also get away from the tourist traps and food and drink is good value. Locals do get fucked off with stag group dicks, but there is not that many compared to normal tourists.

Riga .. in a way i sort of liked visiting there, the old town is mostly full of foreign nob heads and organised crime though and the police are wankers. So for any visit there a bit of research is required on where the wankers go, once you know where the wankers go just avoid those places like the plague. Latvia has been hit hard by the recession though.

Tallin is a nice place to visit, the estonians freak me out a bit though for some reason but the russian estonians are a bit more normal, why i have this stupid impression about the estonian estonians i dont know, perhaps it is the weird language.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

I know I'm probably a bit late, but have you considered Ljubljana in Slovenia. Fucking beautiful place and a it different..

Failing that I of course would reccommend Krakow, Budapest or Brussels (it's NOT boring).

 

[sned]

Aye, Ljubljana is friggin' nice.. i think it may have shut down now but when i went they had this 'club' which was an old army barracks from the Balkans War. different music in each of the different buildings with people milling around in the grounds, chatting, swigging and generally 'aving it.

can't remember what it was called thought. (Although im sure it will come to me as soon as i post this!)

Edit: Metelkova is what its called.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metelkova

Looking at it there's nothing to suggest it has closed down/been demolished (except for one building) which is good! Go there!

 

[ilovebush&blair]

Yeah the Liz Windsor funny money has tanked against the Euro but as much of the Eurozone is not so stupidly priced compared to the UK in itself, it can still be reasonably priced if not as cheap as it might have been a year ot two ago.

Prague? Go OFF season ie from Mid September to Easter excluding public holidays.

The Hungarian Forint has fallen in value so Budapest but a lot of the warnings about Prague apply here too.

Gdasnk? Baltic States? Brussels?

yeah but its still 35% more expensive than it was last year!