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Abroad first time - ideas most appreciated
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Never been abroad and will go this year with my girlfriend.
Really somewhere of beauty, culture, scenery, beaches, and nice weather.
Any recommendations most appreciated, I am unsure where to start...
Any thoughts on Sardinia ?
Sorrento & Sicily have also been recommended highly.
Thankyou
Really somewhere of beauty, culture, scenery, beaches, and nice weather.
Any recommendations most appreciated, I am unsure where to start...
Any thoughts on Sardinia ?
Sorrento & Sicily have also been recommended highly.
Thankyou
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I went to Malta earlier in the year, thats worth a visit, cheaper than Italy and got culture by the bucket load, not many beaches though, clean sea however.
Sicily and Sardinia are supposedly both wonderful places, although I'd have thought expensive too. I know my cousins spent a month in Sardinia two summers ago, hostelling and camping which didn't work out too expensively.
I know it's not all that exotic, and some of them are like hell on earth nowadays, but I'd recommend a Greek Island for a first holiday abroad. If you're after a bit of everything - culture, nightlife, beaches then you couldn't go far wrong. Anywhere you go in Greece really will have culture though, as they have such an anicent heritage...but Crete is great (IF you choose your base resort wisely). I also really, really liked Kalymnos...it's gorgeous and sunny and there's sponge-diving. What more can you ask for!?
Happy holiday hunting
It was very quiet but there was plenty to do and the hotel we stayed in, Club Nerja, had packages with trips to Gibraltar, treks around the mountains etc. We went on a jeep ride/trek and had a barbeque at 15,000 ft on December 18th. It was gorgous!
There's the cueva de nerja aswell...amazing caves! I've never seen anything like it.
The hotel was clean, the staff were really friendly and it wasn't ridiculously expensive either.
Weather was nice, beaches were 5-10 mins walk away, town was gorgous, resturants were good (and bloody cheap!)
I highly recommend it to anyone that asks! :thumb:
ETA: link for website with the hotel... http://www.holidayhotels.com/hotel.php?HID=20030919113813506010
Well I guess it´s all subjective. I don´t agreee with any of that but hey ho.