Use our Travel forum for recommendations on everything from day trips to the best family-friendly holiday destinations. We've been to a few European capitals, but fancy going somewhere less obvious this year. Any suggestions please. We'll be staying four nights so needs to be enough to do. We like pottering, shopping, architecture, history, walks, eating out, so think easy to please. Twin Centre Seville and Cadiz - easy on the train between the 2.
While a car would be very useful for the coast and most of the small attractive inland villages, Avignon, Arles and Nimes are all very easy to get to by train.
Agree, all worth visiting and fairly different from each other. Also liked Aigues-Morte as a day trip, even though it's very touristy only 1 euro each way by train from Nimes. I would say these are less obvious, although the first two have become quite popular city break destinations recently:. Could quite happily spend 4 days in any of them, but I like just wandering aimlessly, exploring food markets and shops, restaurants and cafes etc.
If you mostly want to tick off a list of 'sights' or don't want to walk down the same street more than once, then you may find 4 days too much for some of them. Places I didn't love - I thought Carcassonne cite was a disappointing tourist trap, Bucharest a bit of a dump and Dubrovnik, beautiful but spoiled by over tourism and cruise ship crowds.
Mainz: again a nice Old Town, Guttenburg Museum, cathedral, old Roman ruins, wine by the Rhine, good base for trips to Frankfurt, boat trips also fun! Innsbruck: another fab old town and river, museum, Alpine zoo reachable by funicular, cable car up the mountain, good base for hikes, Austrian food and wine is lovely! CherryPavlova I love Romania. There was a Yiddish theatre when I was there last, but that was Thirding Antwerp.
