Help me find a holiday

[KaySamuels]

I have announced to dp that next year we are going abroad! Will probably go end of September. We don't want to go to anywhere full of british people insisting on having fryups, as we prefer to actually experience the country we are visiting. I quite fancy greece, italy, turkey, but am open to other suggestions. Would like a nice pool or sandy beach or both, family friendly (ds will be three almost four), with some good cultural things to sightsee.

Don't know where to start looking so if anyone has any recommendations that would be great!

We have just come back from Calvi in corsica with a 3 and 4 year old. Had a lovely holiday, very few english people, lots of French and Italian, not a fry up in sight. We were a 5 min walk from a lovely sandy child friendly beach, not big waves and shallow for quite a way out. The apartment we were staying in had a lovely pool and small play area for kids, my 2 played quite happily with some french children around the same age.

Corsica is a beautiful country, with lots of history, beautiful citadel at the other end of the town which was nice to wander around in the evening.

We were staying here if it helps and I cant recommend it enough.

www.corsica.co.uk/properties/157/La_Balagne/0/0/614/Maisons_Bervily/

That looks lovely, thankyou. I'm guessing it is self catering, how did you find eating out - cost wise and kids wise? Also is there a food market/shop nearby?

Within a 5 min walk there is a large supermarket, DH walked there each morning to get fresh baguettes for breakfast, mmmm. Supermarket also had a rotisserie so we bought a roast chicken and had it with a salad one night. We bought bread and made sandwiches for lunch time and ate out in the evening. The supermarket also had fresh made pasta type meals that you could buy.

The town is about a 10-15 min walk, lots of restaurants, mainly pizza, pasta type things. Girls love Pizza and Pasta so it was fine for us. Its not a particulary cheap place to eat, probably on par with here. I can remember spending about 45 euros one night (£30), for two kids meals (drink, Pizza, Ice cream), 2 main courses for us and a bottle of wine. Generally people eat out later than they do here, even with kids.

We really liked Corsica and the beach that we were closest two was ideal for little kids. The kids were welcome every where that we went. Worth hiring a car for a couple of days just so you get to see a bit of corsica. We had two amazing days outs with the kids, but you would need a car to get to those places. One was a beach with a river where you hired canoes to go up the river a little way and you seen turtles, the girls loved it.