January city breaks?

[Springal]

Can anyone recommend any nice European [or maybe even within the UK] weekend breaks for me and the missus in January?

 

[Tooting Gull]

We shall be going to INVERNESS again for a few days in January, which clearly counts as abroad. It's a great place, loads of cool pubs with live music, historical sites/castles, great countryside, but obviously bloody freezing that time of year. You just have to drink your way through it. Hoping to get a day's skiing at Aviemore, and going to Inverness v Rangers.

You can go from Gatwick with flybe.

 

[chez]

Can't go wrong with Roma although it is very cold in January - or at least it was when I went that time of the year.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i found bruges VERY romantic

nice strolls along the canals, or around the boundaries of the 'old' city

lovely

 

[smudge]

Barcelona....& you can catch a game as well. Loads to do, great food, great shops, great sights, quality.

 

[Frutos]

Barcelona....& you can catch a game as well. Loads to do, great food, great shops, great sights, quality.

What he said.

Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell, Las Ramblas, Barri Gotic and of course Camp Nou....what more could you want?

 

[Springal]

I have been to Barcelona LOADS so not too sure! Will bare in mind, is anywhere on the Eurostar network any good? Brussels etc?

 

[chez]

I have been to Barcelona LOADS so not too sure! Will bare in mind, is anywhere on the Eurostar network any good? Brussels etc?

I don't know the answer to that question but I would imagine flights would be just as cheap as Eurostar if you know where to look if price is what you're thinking about.

 

[Springal]

Not really price, just I fly nearly once a month including a couple of long hauls so fancy a change!

Lille looks quite nice too?

 

[Safeway]

I would NOT recommend Sofia. Just been for the weekend and, nice enough place as it is, we got ripped off left, right and CENTRE.

Edit: Me and the missus are looking at a weekend in Helsinki next month. Decent flights with Easyjet, accomodation not the cheapest but good quality and apprently it's just a really nice place.

 

[Tooting Gull]

I would NOT recommend Sofia. Just been for the weekend and, nice enough place as it is, we got ripped off left, right and CENTRE.

So no one pulled, then?

Edit: And of course not, rightly so...

 

[aftershavedave]

budapest: it's a less busy, prettier and more interesting version of prague. with a fantastic WW2 museum

 

[sully]

budapest: it's a less busy, prettier and more interesting version of prague. with a fantastic WW2 museum

I was about to recommend Budapest, too.

It'll be cold in January, but the bonus is you get huge outdoor ice-skating rinks and you can also swim in the hot spas, which is really great when its freezing outside (apart from the getting in and out bit!).

My favourite city by far.

 

[bhafc99]

Just got back from Krakow, which was lovely.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

roma. naples, florence. all nice places for weekend.

 

[Safeway]

So no one pulled, then?

Edit: And of course not, rightly so...

Cologne's very nice. Again, should get decent flights from Gatwick with Easyjet and accomodation, food etc is all very reasonable.

After our experience in Bulgaria, I would be very reluctant to go anywhere that isn't Euro-fied.

 

[Simster]

Copenhagen.

 

[algie]

roma. naples, florence. all nice places for weekend.

I've always fancied Naples.

 

[Safeway]

I've always fancied Naples.

Full of dirty foreigners though, innit?

 

[algie]

Full of dirty foreigners though, innit?

Yes knob head