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Oh B*ll*cks

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FelicityFlops · 06/12/2023 23:33

Coming up this weekend it is the 20th anniversary of my husband's death (suicide).
I need to get away from tomorrow until Monday, any suggestions?
Budget - as cheap as possible up to €1000.

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bungletru · 07/12/2023 16:39

@FelicityFlops Spain is probably your best bet if you need some TLC at a lower cost I’d say!
sending love!

jemenfous37 · 07/12/2023 07:33

Nice! You can travel to all the gorgeous towns and villages easily by train. So much lovliness all along the coast. Antibes has an amazing daily market (brocante) and a fort!
Much to see in Nice too, esp daily market in old town.

Mirrormeback · 07/12/2023 01:47

Have a lovely time OP

I used to live in Frankfurt but haven't been back for over 20 years

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FelicityFlops · 07/12/2023 01:34

I am really grateful for all the suggestions, but am wimping out and going to Frankfurt as it is a relatively short drive and I get "points" for staying at a certain hotel that I call Zenda.
If anyone knows the novel The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope they will know that Zenda was an old hunting lodge, this place was about it, but has been much modernised over the past 14 years. Rooms and facilities are great, food was good, but is now awful again.
You can't have everything!
Big plus, I never stayed here with my husband :-)

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Mirrormeback · 07/12/2023 01:21

They've got a pool abd and a Spa, museums, theatre 🎭 lots of lovely places to walk to visit and walk to

Mirrormeback · 07/12/2023 01:20

Stay in The Grand in Brighton and explore

Pinkpinkpink15 · 07/12/2023 01:10

I'm sorry 'anniversaries' of this kind are hard!

Ah curve ball with swimming in Dec

id look at Copenhagen, Cologne or another place with excellent Christmas Markets and a hotel with a pool.

but I LOVE those Christmas Markets. Mostly the food & Gluwein!!

SiobhanSharpe · 07/12/2023 01:00

Babla · 07/12/2023 00:50

Ithink I want buzz, good food and swimming.

For this Barcelona

Or San Sebastián.

Lunde · 07/12/2023 00:56

Christmas market? Austria or Germany
Traditional spa in Hungary?
Weekend skiing, sauna and a dip in a frozen lake? Finland/Sweden
City break? Venice, Florence, Paris, Innsbruck, Bern, Zurich, Bruges etc

Babla · 07/12/2023 00:50

Ithink I want buzz, good food and swimming.

For this Barcelona

Museum10662 · 07/12/2023 00:47

or Portadown area

Museum10662 · 07/12/2023 00:46

Edinburgh,
Bath,
Snowdonia

Geekylover · 07/12/2023 00:40

Sorry for your grief.
venice. It’s magical and if you like you can book an opera like the musica palazzo or walk around the canals.
hoep,you have a lovely time whatever you choose

VWT5 · 07/12/2023 00:34

Budapest and the thermal baths, heated outdoor bathing pools in the snow….

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FelicityFlops · 07/12/2023 00:18

Love Dublin, worked there about 13 years ago, sadly a bit out of the price range at the moment :-( because I want business class flights and 5 star hotels. Oh dear :-)
Northumberland looks wonderful, but far too difficult to get to (not to mention expensive, which, sadly, is the face of the UK at the moment).

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bungletru · 07/12/2023 00:14

Barcelona
or dublin

Willyoujustbequiet · 07/12/2023 00:13

I'm sorry, thats going to be a hard one. Somethings never get easier.

I second Northumberland. Wild windswept coasts and moors. Its good for the soul.

LaChatte · 07/12/2023 00:12

Avignon for a couple of nights then TGB down to Barcelona 👌. Sorry about the situation, this weekend next year will be a milestone date since the death of DS's DDad (alcohol related), every year it still catches me out.

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FelicityFlops · 07/12/2023 00:12

@minou123 That is a really good call! I live about 2 hours by car from Strasbourg and was a student there. Thank you!

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FelicityFlops · 07/12/2023 00:06

Wow, thanks so much for the responses. Bit freaked out at the reference to Exeter, which is where I grew up.
I am in Europe and can fly or drive.
I did look at places closer to where I live, but your input has got me thinking about France, Austria and Italy.
I think I want buzz, good food and swimming.

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AutumnCrow · 07/12/2023 00:04

Do you have transport, OP? (i.e. a car)

Kaltenzahn · 07/12/2023 00:03

What kind of thing are you thinking of OP?

You could do the whole traditional Christmas market thing somewhere in Germany if you're feeling festive?

If you don't fancy Germany I think Budapest or Prague both look lovely in the winter.

I'm so sorry for what you've been through. I hope wherever you end up the weekend goes as easily as it can do 💜

minou123 · 07/12/2023 00:02

The Christmas Market in Strasbourg may also be a good place to go for 4 nights.

Beamur · 07/12/2023 00:02

Norfolk
Northumberland
North Devon
Big skies and beautiful coasts.