To ask: if you had a four day weekend and a budget of about £600 for flights and accommodation, where would you travel in Europe?

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In March. Had a half marathon booked but I’m never going to get to the required fitness level and the thought of it has me dreading running ever again. So I’m going to cancel and go away.

Any recommendations welcome!

0.1% is so close to nothing it’s negligible.

Amsterdam is my favourite European city

However, Venice is unique

Trains when poss is a good thing

Lake Maggiore - fly into Milan Malpensa from Bristol & you can either take public transport or hire a car for a few days and stay somewhere on the lake. Or stay in Milan. Or do both!

Just had a nosey on Skyscanner and it looks as if there are flights from Bristol to Budapest. Loads to see and picturesque.
Ditto Krakow.
Both fresh though in March.
I had sun and actually a bit of heat at the end of November in Palermo in Sicily.
If you fancy the south of Spain you could fly to Murcia and then it's not far on the bus to Cartagena. See the sights then on for a couple of days at the beach at Mar Menor? It should be warm and dry in March.

No need to be pedantic. It's next to nothing.

Venice. You can get flats rather than hotels which are cheaper. God I love Venice.

Yes, I am! If everyone thinks, "oh, no one else is reducing their flights, so I may as well not bother," then nothing will change. Now you know that I definitely am changing my plans.

I've told DP I no longer want to go to Japan, and he was on the same page. He's pretty freaked out by the fires too.

Cologne.

So next to nothing means no-one bothers to makes any changes?

Athens, Porto or Granada are next on my list so one of those.

I think Granada might be too difficult to get to for just 4 days though.

if I make a change it won’t make a difference. I refuse to deprive myself of a few trips a year because the ultra rich don’t want to change their lifestyles.

If you don’t like that then fine. But this isn’t the thread for you.

Narvik

Of course it doesn't. But you don't change behaviours and destroy an entire industry and many people's livelihoods for an ineffectual change.

You look at what changes will have a meaningful impact. If there is something that has 10% contribution to climate change, reducing the emissions in that 'something' by just 2% will have twice the effect as removing flights from the UK altogether. So you'd do that first.

Easiest way would be to fly to Malaga and get the bus, it's less than 2 hours and definitely worth the trip. I've been a few times and not run out of things to see.

Porto (and Portugal in general) is quite low cost, so the OP would definitely be able to get a flight and nice hotel in budget.

Porto has won, purely because it’s so cheap! A beautiful apartment overlooking the river for £300 for 3 nights!

Yup. The industry is decarbonising and becoming more energy efficient anyway.

@blueberry8

Some of us have family abroad so have to fly there.

I don't drive though so...

There are people who say you can fly to meet family but not for holiday

Riga in Latvia is beautiful and great for exploring. Very cheap once you are there, and we stayed in a wonderful flat for £350 for 5 days via Airbnb.

Nowhere too expensive as £600 doesn’t go far these days. Maybe Spain or Portugal or Croatia.

Good for them.

Other people will just visit Japan then and you won't.

We've not been yet. But we'd love to go.

I disagree..I'm on your side OP. Have a great holiday

Lisbon and take the train to Sintra for the day. It is absolutely stunning. I was there in January and it was warm enough for jeans and t-shirt during the day.