DP and I loved to have an adventure while on holiday, pre-DC. Previous examples include backpacking in India with no plan as to where to go next, ditto SE Asia, trekking holidays, multi-stop holidays. We’re happy to have a couple of beach days a week, but basically not beach/ pool resort based holidays. We also love cities.
This isn’t really possible now we have DC (2.5 and one on the way), but we really don’t want a weeks AI in a resort either. This year (first foreign trip with DC) we had 4 days at a Spanish coast location and then got the train to a Spanish city for another 3 days and we were happy with this sort of compromise for now. We’re also going to Cornwall later this year where we can base ourselves and have days out.
We’re looking for ideas similar to the Spanish trip for next year. Neither of us would be confident driving on the right, especially with the DC and we’d ideally like somewhere where either English is understood, or we wouldn’t stick out like a sore thumb for not speaking the local language (we like cities for this reason).
We’ll have roughly a 3.5yr old and 6 month old at this point, so somewhere child friendly, fairly short flight (4hrs ish max) and not too hot ideally, but warm would be great (c.25c max) We don’t Mind changing location once during a weeks holiday, or happy to stay in one base as long as there are fairly close things to do each day.
close to a beach for one or two half days on the beach would be a bonus for DC1.
Does anyone have any ideas for locations that would fit all this criteria?
thank you.