Recommendations for perfect weekend break, euro city or uk, romantic small hotel, good food essential...

[CountessDracula]

dh and I want to go somewhere really lovely for a weekend for our wedding anniversary this year (end sept). We have rather neglected our anniversary for a few years since dd has been around, we have had a bit of a tough time recently which we have come through and have really sorted out and we are madly in lurve . We would really love to go somewhere relaxing and beautiful and stay somewhere small and intimate and fab. Nothing too designery really, maybe with nice antiques and big snuggly bed and a balcony with a view...

All suggestions welcomed...

Hell bay?

What about la mamounia Marrakesh? Or alternatively a good riad there?

We spent my 40th birthday here www.loggiatodeiservitihotel.it/en/index.htm . We found it in the Good Hotel Guide, which it's been in for years. It's small, furnished with antiques and is on one of the most beautiful squares in Florence. We asked for a special room and got one at the top, with a four poster and a view of the Duomo. No restaurant, but that's not a problem in the centre of Florence. The whole trip was magical.

That looks lovely Oldiemum!

That must have been a great birthday!

Any restaurant recomendations - off there in August for our anniversary?

are you looking for something a bit more shabby chic or boho sort of looking, CD?

Oops that was supposed to be a sort of hmmmmm we're not hitting the mark hmm, not an angry I'm getting tired of this

Soapbox - it was a wonderful birthday. Only surpassed by my 41st birthday, when DD was born. We had had eight failed attempts at fertility treatment in a fairly short period. I decided I didn't want to spend my 40th having yet another round of failed IVF treatment, so we took a break for a few months and had breaks in both Venice and Florence. We tried again a few months later and ... In the same square as the hotel, there is the old foundlings hospital, now the European HQ for UNICEF. It seemed like a good omen, and it was.

It's too long ago for me to remember restaurants off hand - five and a half years (ahem!). If I can find the guidebook, I'll check - unfortunately, most of our books are in storage at the moment.

oldiemum that looks lovely!
they say there is no availability for the weekend of 23 sept though

What about Marrakech?
Not too far.
Get a fantastic riyadh.
We went a few years ago and it was fantastic in every single way.

why not boston?

dh has vetoed sadly
Sophable suggested this earlier too I think I have to work on him

BOSTON??

have you ever BEEN to boston?

yes on our way bakc form bermuda the return flight was only 5 and a half hours

left at 10pm were in bed at home at 7am

dh loved boston

not really the ... ahem....vibe i am after

why not barcelfarkign lona

rome - something for everyone.

Whart did dh veto?
Boston or Marrakech?

Howzabout Scilly Isles?
No,hang on,you want city....

Bath also splendid.

Biarrits cool
And Nice.

venice is fabola though

madrid?/salamanca?

dh not mad abt spain

scilly ilses dull

What about somewhere like Salzburg? Never been but sounds lovely.

Second Venice and Florence - both magical and smallish. Also liked Genoa and Milan.

Bruges?

ah but in barcelona sis got pissed in fab tapaas bars in gothic quarter nad her dh and her LOVED it

yes ot venice
floernce overrun imfo