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...

Dublin?

ANTWERP
Hang with the sailors all night down the docks!
Get there by container ship!

no barca
no roma

Venice lookign good
or florence
or istanbul

shite food htough

florence is a disappointemtn imo

Basle/Basel
Strasbourg

no
not st P
soz
nor helsinki
nowhere too far N

Venice would be good then!

Oldiemum's place looks lovely!

Get a private water taxi from the airport and you swoosh across the Lagoon like something from a James Bond movie - warm and sultry. Then you arrive in the centre and take in the familiar scene of the Grand Canal, but WOW is it so much more 'real' than in films or on the TV!

I just loved it - can;t think of anywhere better for a lovely weekend a deux! Go for it!

starsburg?

i think a lto fo the bavarian cities are fabbola

regensburg
bamberg
nuremburg
so beautful and fab food

defo not Switzerland have already wasted too much of my life htere
Strasbourg interestting idea

Istanbul is great.
Veteran of many trips on way to and from back of Kurdish beyond.
May I recommend Four Seasons in heart of the action or Pere Palas which was destination hotel for Orient Express.V atmospheric.
Turks gorgeous folk and food bloody ace.

yes turkish food MUST be the 3rd best cuisin int he worl d after french and chinese

But Basle is gorgeous and only just into Switzerland

yy we spent part of honeymoon in Istanbul and adored it
was top of list but flights poor timing

Budapest.
Stay in youth hostel on the hill and wait for German lesbians to invite you to drink wine in the park...

fab food in istanbul I agree

dh loves budapest
is on list

Starsbourg not so good, unless you really like Bruge

does it have to be abroad?

NO read op!!!

Turks will tell you with a dismissive toss of head that tis the best.
It is so good.Would be size of respectable semi had I stayed much longer.Dh now in Tajikistan which while perfectly pleasnt not noted for its haute cuisine.

cod you clearly just hung out in the cheesy bits

If you've been to Istanbul no point going again.

My sister lived in Arles for years.That is lovely and near Avignon.Loads of sites,lots Roman,ace food,best food market have ever been to.
May I recommend Hotel Pinus (I know) in centre of Arles? Van Gogh stayed there.
You can get fast train all the way down now. V romantic.