City Breaks in Europe

Most short break holidays or weekends have been single city breaks. Europe's capital cities are favourite destinations, with London, Paris and Barcelona being the favourites. Aha say the pedants, but Barcelona is not a capital city? Oh yes it is. It's the capital of Catalonia so that's enough of that. I wanted to talk about multiple <a href="http://www.eurobookers.com/CityBreaks/city-breaks-holiday-packages.aspx">city" breaks</a> because that's a more challenging form of short break holiday to organize and make arrangements for. For multiple city breaks Europe has the advantage over larger continents in that there are plenty of wonderful cities not too far apart from each other. So you could fly in and out to Rome, for example and still visit Florence, Milan and Pisa within a reasonable time frame - say less than one week for the complete city break.

But there is yet another way to do it, and that is by buying one way tickets on different routes, instead of always getting a return journey - out and return. The way the newer budget airlines operate their pricing policies actually facilitates this kind of triangular journey because it used to be that a single  fare cost almost as much as a return but this is no longer the case. With computer booking the prices are flexible according to availability and demand for each date and time so that means the two journeys are not coupled together immutably. lets say you are starting from London Stansted airport - a popular terminal with the budget airlines, Easyjet, RyanAir etc. You could fly to Bordeaux or Biarritz in South West France, explore the French Pyrannees for a few days then follow the coast along the North of Spain to San Sebastian and fly back from Bilbao. Another possibility is to take advantage of the North European rail networks and take in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Copenhagen all in one trip.

The distance between cities in Europe is really not so great as often imagined due to the language and culture changes when passing from one to another. If you've never been to Scotland before and don't expect to return anytime soon for more than a quick visit then you'd want to see both Edinburgh and Glasgow if possible, and it can be with multiple city breaks. Europe also has lots of little countries around the Balkans and central European area, such as Croatia, Serbia, Czech and Slovenia all of which have fascinating historical capitals, handy for multiple city breaks in Europe, all being not very far away from each other.