Please recommend a late-October city break.

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Flying from Dublin airport and ideally looking for somewhere within about 3 hours.

Two adults. Would like somewhere that’s easy to walk around, nice restaurants, bars, and sights.

Going for either three or four nights.

Not funny. Where have you already been?

I don’t think that’s a city.

Lisbon?

Are you hoping for warmer weather, OP, or are you not that bothered?

I'd recommend Palma or Porto if you want some sun. If you're not fussed, Oslo is lovely or any of the Polish cities-especially Poznan, Gdansk, Wroclaw I can recommend

Seville?

What's important to you - food, weather, culture, architecture, language?

I'd start by looking at flights from Dublin airport at the times you'd like to travel and see what looks convenient. Because there are dozens if not hundreds of lovely European cities that would be nice.

Rome? Porto?

Vienna, Innsbruck, Geneva, Salzburg, Montreux, Munich, Berlin, Edinburgh, London, Budapest, Prague, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Copenhagen, Malmo.

Wouldn’t be against revisiting but drawing a blank for somewhere new.

Rome, Barcelona, Prague, Copenhagen, Lisbon. Any of them would give you a lovely mini-break.

If you haven’t done Rome and looks like you haven’t that would be very worth a visit. Late oct is a good time weather and tourist levels wise; absolutely loads to see but walkable; great food obv; very atmospheric.

Following with interest as looking for something similar for a solo trip in early Nov.

Unfortunately there aren’t many options from any of my local airports and I’d rather walk than give a penny to Ryanair. :-/

Or Cote d’azure: nice/cannes if you want a town

Malaga is really lovely

Glasgow or Liverpool if you aren't too fussed about the weather.

Lovely list, OP, but no Italian cities! Florence would be my pick.

Bilbao for the food
Boston
nice
funchal
istanbul
valencia
malaga
toulouse
krakow

I agree with Rome

Milan is also surprisingly nice

Seville or Malaga, both lovely with lots to see and do. And the weather should still be nice too.

We have just returned from Palma. We stayed for 4 nights and really enjoyed it and it fits the 'easy to wander around, good bars/restaurants and sites to see' criteria.

Granada or Seville

I really enjoyed Venice in November

London, food, parks, history, museums, theatre.