Install the app
How to install the app on iOS

Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.

Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.

City Break

Status
Not open for further replies.
Debunkology said:
I spent 2 years travelling around Europe and my top 3 cities are.

1. Prague
2. Budapest
3. Krakow

Them 3 stand out
Click to expand...
I disliked Prague.
Beautiful city but overcrowded by tourists in the same way Amsterdam and Barcelona are.
The worst of them (when I visited) were the Chinese with selfie sticks. You get the feeling of being in a theme park.

Also a lot of soulless American-styled malls and shops ...
 
FrenchDarrenBent said:
I disliked Prague.
Beautiful city but overcrowded by tourists in the same way Amsterdam and Barcelona are.
The worst of them (when I visited) were the Chinese with selfie sticks. You get the feeling of being in a theme park.

Also a lot of soulless American-styled malls and shops ...
Click to expand...
Find that with a lot of big city tourist destinations. Lived in Edinburgh for several years and rarely ventured into the city centre. Best to visit out of season or wander around at 6/7 in the morning.
 
Split is great and easy to visit quite a few islands nearby.
Bordeaux is quality.
SAN Sebastian, Bilbao and Santander are all really good fun and doable in 4-5 days.
Bergamo is very surprising and you can take in an Atlanta game if they’re at home.
Hercig Nova and the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro definitely won’t disappoint.
And for a cracking night out Belfast is tough to beat.
 

COYBL25 said:
Ghent in Belgium wins hands down.

It`s just such a beautiful, but massively overlooked, medieval city.

The Ghent Festival, held over a four day period in July every year, when the bars can stay open for 24 hrs every day ( if they wish ) is just brilliant.

The local people are extremely friendly and love the English too, which is a rarity !
Click to expand...
Seconded. It's a great city, craps all over Bruges, which is where folk make a beeline for.
 
FrenchDarrenBent said:
I disliked Prague.
Beautiful city but overcrowded by tourists in the same way Amsterdam and Barcelona are.
The worst of them (when I visited) were the Chinese with selfie sticks. You get the feeling of being in a theme park.

Also a lot of soulless American-styled malls and shops ...
Click to expand...
When I visited Prague I went early March. Dodged the bulk of the tourist crowds. Can imagine they'd ruin the experience. Tourist complaining about tourists, did irony just run past?
 

Annecy
Cape Town - Eat at the Pot Luck Club.... allow yourself three hours minimum.
Dubrovnik - stunningly beautiful Old Town. Go out of season, something like April.
Paris - It's cliched, but spring really is best. Incredibly beautiful architecture everywhere.
New York - Visit the 9/11 Memorial. Eat at Ellen's on Time Square.
Nice
San Diego & San Francisco - we did these as the start and finish of a road trip through California, but either would work fabulously well for a city break.

All places I've visited before and would return to without hesitation. I'd also say Berlin - the Holocaust Museum and the Berlin Wall visitor centre are both massively impactful - but beware when booking restaurants or dropping into a bar for a few drinks. I don't know if we were just massively unlucky but the service was awful in every place we tried. My spoken German is basic but my wife is fairly competent so we weren't just speaking English slowly and loudly!
 
COYBL25 said:
Ghent in Belgium wins hands down.

It`s just such a beautiful, but massively overlooked, medieval city.

The Ghent Festival, held over a four day period in July every year, when the bars can stay open for 24 hrs every day ( if they wish ) is just brilliant.

The local people are extremely friendly and love the English too, which is a rarity !
Click to expand...
It's a ten day period, you left too early ?.
Ghent isn't really overlooked (maybe by English tourists). The city is bigger, has a university and is economically way more relevant than Bruges.

Personally I can recommend Belgian cities as a city break (as I work and live there now).

There's a decent rail connection between cities and you'll be hard pressed to find tourist traps. It's not too expensive and an excellent chance to stock up on high quality beer.
 
Daveysgingerlovechild said:
When I visited Prague I went early March. Dodged the bulk of the tourist crowds. Can imagine they'd ruin the experience. Tourist complaining about tourists, did irony just run past?
Click to expand...
L'enfer c'est les autres Sartre once said.
I went late November. All I saw were "black Friday" ads. They hugged capitalism a bit too hard for my liking.

It's the 'lads on tour' type of tourist I generally dislike the most. They don't represent England well at all, closely followed by Chinese tourists with selfie sticks and the disrespectful Russian wife beater that was my neighbour in Tenerife.
 
FrenchDarrenBent said:
L'enfer c'est les autres Sartre once said.
I went late November. All I saw were "black Friday" ads. They hugged capitalism a bit too hard for my liking.

It's the 'lads on tour' type of tourist I generally dislike the most. They don't represent England well at all, closely followed by Chinese tourists with selfie sticks and the disrespectful Russian wife beater that was my neighbour in Tenerife.
Click to expand...
I think that's the same of a lot of big cities in the Ascension EU countries that were formerly communist tbf.

Lads on tour ruin most things they touch. Budapest apparently suffers from this aw well. I enjoyed Prague, i went on my own a few years ago and strolled around taking it all in. Entirely relaxing.
 

Status
Not open for further replies.

Welcome to GrandOldTeam

Get involved. Registration is simple and free.

Register
Back
Top