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Trip Ideas While Pregnant

Good afternoon! My husband and I are planning our last big trip before kids, to Europe, and trying to pick destinations. I will be in my second trimester for our first baby. I have already cleared this with my doctor that it is OK and will make sure to research hospitals and insurance for while we are over there.

My stipulations are not countries that are either beer heavy (this may sound silly, but I am a beer lover and would be somewhat sad if I went to a country we may never go to again and didn’t get to try any beer if the country is known for it- Germany, Belgium, pubs in Ireland, etc.) or would require long hikes/being on my feet All day. I would like a mix of natural beauty as well as history and museums. A few days in a coastal town would be great as well. We did go to Italy last year (Positano, Rome and Florence with day trips to some Tuscan cities) and have already been to London. We’re not opposed to going to northern Italy as part of our trip, but would prefer to not do a repeat of the cities we visited just last year).

We are planning on two weeks in mid summer. Would prefer only four destinations and I loved the train rides in Italy. Cheapest direct flights from where I live are to and from either London or Paris.

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France? You could get an open-jaw ticket, into Nice and out of Paris and work your way North. So many possible places. Spend some time on the med. coast and then head to Provence and then Dordogne or Loire Valley and then Paris. Or you could start in Paris and head out to Normandy and then down the coast through Bordeaux and into Northern Spain (San Sebastian) and fly out of Bilbao... Or do a loop, flying in and out of Paris (this would likely get you the cheapest ticket): Paris, Normandy, Loire....

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The Italian Lakes are beautiful. Choose one ( we like Lake Como best but all are beautiful) for a week and the other week spend in Santa Margherita Ligure or Camogli by the Ligurian Sea, just south of Genoa. Milan MXP or LIN work well for both of these locations.
To add another location, Alba in the Piemonte is beautiful, wine villages are nearby. Much less touristed than Tuscany. Add Turin too. Not far from Liguria, Santa Margherita, etc. Bologna would also work well with any of these as well as Parma. Milan MXP and or LIN. These should all be cooler areas for you.

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The options are way too numerous, so just a few:

Loire Valley, Dordogne, Paris/Picardie/Champagne/Alsace, Südtirol, Northern Italian Lakes, London (a museum lover's dream), Denmark is wonderful in summer (long daylight, wonderful beaches), Poland's Baltic Sea coast, Croatia, Sicily, Andalucia (Sevilla/Granada/Cordoba), Austria/Hungary/Slovakia both the cities Vienna/Budapest/Bratislava as well as the rural areas, the Rhine whith the cathedrals of Worms, Mainz and Speyer, Berlin/Dresden/Prague (but that is beer country).
I could go on ... and on ... and on .....
And don't despair - Europe won't disappear once you have your kids. We, from Portugal to Ural mountains, from Northern Norway to Crete, we won't vanish and neither will the the culture, the beer, the wine, the architecture, the scenery, the beaches and not least us Europeans.

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As Michael says: "Vienna/Budapest/Bratislava as well as the rural areas, the Rhine with the cathedrals of Worms, Mainz and Speyer, Berlin/Dresden/Prague (but that is beer country)." That's a great trip.
I also like flying into London and catching EasyJet to Munich and stay 3-4 days. Then rent a car and go southwest toward Andechs (and one of the great small breweries), Neuschwanstein, Innsbruck, thru the Brenner Pass into Northern Italy, to Venice. Then north through the Dolomites and over to Salzburg to partake of some of the nectar of the gods at Augustiner Brewery. Depending on time left, you could go East to Vienna or northeast to Ceske Krumlov and up to Prague.
The combinations are endless.