European Holiday
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- craigatkinson
Looking for somewhere to go, in Europe. Need something for kids, enough to stop us getting bored, a beach / pool / sun / museums / galleries / bookshops. City not country. Not Morocco, probably not Berlin.
Any suggestions?
- orrinward20
St Ives.
- Beach and plenty of galleries (read: paintings of beaches) and old bookshops.orrinward2
- ...and seagulls that will take the fish and chips from your hands.orrinward2
- bastardscalculator
- honest0
budget?
- hansglib0
a city with beach museums galleries would be barcelona
- +1pablo28
- btw, not to be a pedant or nowt but morocco isn't in europehansglib
- <GeorgesII
- barcelona is overratedcalculator
- its near enoughcraigatkinson
- uan0
Côte d'Azure: Nice, Grasse, ...if you got a car.
or touring the Greek islands is a nice trip too.
and portugal is nice to travel too.
- pressplay0
^Barcelona! smaller: Valencia? In Portugal (Atlantic Ocean): Porto? Lisboa?
- numero10
Barcelona has it everything in Spain. If you want to be adventurous you could drive down the coast line to Valencia. Or the other way around. Nice beaches in between the two cities. And plenty of nice towns.
San Sebastian could be nice as well and the areas around it.
- sine0
^ i was gonna recommend Nice too. spent a holiday there with my family when i was younger. rented a self-catering apartment on the beach. we had a car... drove to Monaco for a day trip, did excursions further inland/country... great time.
- I always wonder about parking in Monaco. I would want to go and check it out for a day as wellnumero1
- sad to say, monaco is a dumphansglib
- you park outside the city and walksine
- How come? What was your experience there?numero1
- too hot too expensive very dull. i will give you driving up to the casino tho. that is coolhansglib
- especially if you have the james bond theme blasting out as you arrive.hansglib
- otherwise it's cramped, vulgar and not nearly as interesting as you think it should behansglib
- best seen from the petite corniche as you try to avoid doing a princess grace...hansglib
- 23kon0
When I was young my folks used to take myself and wee brother on driving holidays around europe, driving from UK to a destination then staying there for a few weeks then driving home.
One of the best holidays was the south west coast of france at a campsite near Hossegor. Some amazing little surftowns and close to Biarritz (with calmer waves) and a stones throw from Spain and near the the pyrenees where you can do stuff like white water rafting.
The area is very flat so nice for cycles.- Glasgow was ace btw, that cocktail bar you suggestedcraigatkinson
- glad you had a good time! :) wasnt me that suggested cocktail bar tho :P23kon
- ernexbcn0
Barcelona is a good option, and the good weather just started now. If you come in june you can even go to the Sonar festival for kids http://www.sonarkids.com/en/fest…
- Oops, that's now in May not in june, the festival for adults is in june thoughernexbcn
- pillhead0
Ibiza is a great place to go if you stay away from the night life side of the Island.
- craigatkinson0
Yes Ibiza's great, is there any left without chavs / clubs / piss?
- ernexbcn0
I'd go to Menorca instead, spent a week last summer there and it's great to disconnect and go to crystal clear beaches.
- autoflavour0
berlin
place is awesome in summer