Talk to me of lovely places

[susie_flo]

Good evening, fiends.

Would any of you care to suggest good places to visit for a gentle week away in March?

According to the rules of my workplace, I am required (oh noes!) to use up all of my annual leave before I go on maternity leave.  So I'm thinking that I'd really like to have one last grown-up holiday with G before before Ruprecht turns up...   ideally in March, before I become  too ungainly to waddle around.

If you were planning a week away in March, where would you go?   Ideally I'd like somewhere a little bit warmer than here and not too gruelling, although we are suckers for European city breaks.  Some or all of the following would be good:  gorgeous architecture or scenery, historic or arty culture, gentle bustle, cafe lifestyle and lots of good restaurants.   It doesn't have to be a city - small, picturesque towns and villages are great, as long as they're easy enough to get to. 

What we're not looking for is a 20-something clubbing hotspot or somewhere where there is nothing to do apart from hang around a hotel pool, because I would go stir crazy.   (Also this time I might try to aviod uber-busy capital cities, such as Belle Paris.)

So given all of that, I'm not ruling out a return to beautiful, cosy, reliable Florence (+ maybe Siena) but I'm open to new ideas.... (e.g. Nuremberg, anyone?) 

Comments

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

Not that I've been there (though I'd like to visit), what about Vienna?

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Berlin or Jersey :-)

[whiteshadow.livejournal.com]

Jersey comes to mind, it is mean't to be a great place for a early year break...

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[chiller.livejournal.com]

Old Seville is gorgeous, and the architecture and ornamentation of Alcázar blew my mind so profoundly I had to go outside for a sit down. Whereupon a duck strolled up nonchalantly and had a good old nibble on my shoe, which was joyous.

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Caron's suggestion of the Amalfi coast sounds wonderful. My suggestion would be Granada or Crete... Marrakech would be lovely too.

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Liked Carcassone, though I'd recommend hiring a car. There's loads in the surrounding areas we'd loved to have seen but couldn't get to. Toulouse and Narbonne not too far on the train. Toulouse is v. pretty. It's pink! Narbonne was a Roman port, there's an underground Roman shopping centre there.

It ticks all your boxes with the exception of restaurants, I found the food to be a bit of a let-down - a French woman told me that the cuisine of that area was tres bon. Mais, non. It's not bad, a lot of stew-type things, which might be what you'd want in March. Nice steaks and I did eat fois gras every single day I was there Don't judge me!

[bumblebee.livejournal.com]

Budapest.

[tvted.livejournal.com]

Puprecht! You KILL me Sue.

What about Nimes or somewhere else on the south coast of frenchie france - Biarritz? Although don't remember that much about cafe lifestyle.

Vienna was lovely but I can't think of where you would eat as they are all about the meat meat meat.

Tres dull to be in the UK but what about the lake district. I HATE to say it but how much beautiful scenary was in the latest Harry Potter film? Or somewhere in Scotland. You wouldn't get nice weather tho.