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Active break suggestions

  • 14-04-2016 8:48pm
    #1
    castaway_lady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭


    Hey there,
    Here hunting for suggestions. I'm trying to organise a bank holiday weekend getaway for a small group - 4-6 adults....Ryanair destination most likely. We're trying to figure out where would be best to go to get some outdoor activities, maybe a days hiking trip, alongside sightseeing and city break stuff. We like to be able to book onto a group activity daytour, not have to think about local transport in a strange place.


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  • #2
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Croatia .


    Great mountain and hill walks. Amazing scenery and waterfalls.


  • #3
    maudgonner
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    Cinque Terra in Italy maybe? You could fly into Rome, have some time there and then get the train up?

    I haven't done it yet, but it's on my list :)


  • #4
    stimpson
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    Amsterdam.

    Art galleries and soft drugs by day. Ecstasy parties and whoring by night.


  • #5
    Tombi!
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    ah mod, moving this to the travel forum.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    I'd suggest flying into Milan, venice or Verona & staying around lake Garda.
    Loads of water sports, every second shop is a bicycle rental shop, good mountains for hiking, cable cars, great scenery & a chance of a city day in Venice or Milan.
    It's fabulous & really has everything, especially if you stay around the northern end of the lake.


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  • #7
    shrapnel222
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    geneva. really boring city but skiing is only an hour away and watersports on lake geneva are plentiful


  • #8
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,921 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    bubblypop wrote: »
    I'd suggest flying into Milan, venice or Verona & staying around lake Garda.
    Loads of water sports, every second shop is a bicycle rental shop, good mountains for hiking, cable cars, great scenery & a chance of a city day in Venice or Milan.
    It's fabulous & really has everything, especially if you stay around the northern end of the lake.
    +1

    and similarily, go a little more north of Lake Garda on the mainline Verona to Germany rail line and you hit Bolzano. Its a class town with its own local microbrewery and ancient taverns and lots of local wine for the ladies (and wine festivals if you get lucky with timing) and then in the immediate vicinity or the Venosta Valley you can hike and cycle to your hearts content.

    The Venosta Valley http://www.venosta.net/en/welcome.html is particularly interesting as you can travel up it by train, hire a bike from one of the stations, and then work your way back to Bolzano at your own pace or simply drop it off at a station en route and cheat and get a train the last bit of the way back. They are very very organised tourism wise, so you have the best of germanic organisation (as thats the northern part of the Italian alps with close links to Austria/ Germany) with the Italian weather and food.


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