We are planning a 1 week trip to Europe in 3 weeks.... Oct 29th -Nov 5th. We have seen/been to most major cities and countires previously throughout Europe (excluding Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Finland, and Poland). What is a good 1 week trip in Europe to relax and sightsee this time of year? We are considering Bavaria/Salzburg versus Paris (can't really go wrong there). Also, anyone know good day trips from Paris? Thanks so much!
Posted by
US Pacific Northwest
10344 posts
Day trips from Paris:
Chartres Reims Weather in northern France can be a factor in early November, so you might want to look for day trips offering things to do indoors, in case the weather isn't what you hoped it would be for outdoor activities.
Posted by
Toronto, ON, Canada
112 posts
I'd recommend Portugal - I loved it, and I loved Lisbon.
Posted by
victoria, Canada
11536 posts
Good daytrips from Paris, there are many, the two suggested above, but also Versailles, Chantilly, Fontainbleau, even Rouen( i have done its, its only 1.5 hrs by train),, and if willing to be gone a night, why not london, (eurostar 2.5 hrs city center to city center) or Loire Valley</p>
Posted by
Gaston, Oregon, USA
931 posts
Southern Portugal and So Spain have a pretty good chance of some good weather this time of year. Lisbon and the Algarve in Portugal, and Gibralter, Seville, Ronda, Cordoba, etc in Spain are lots of fun.
Posted by
southwest, Missouri, U.S.A.
1717 posts
Hello Peter. All the places you mentioned could have rain during October 29 - November 5. At Salzburg the air will probably not be very cold, those days. You said you want to relax at Europe. I do not think of Paris as being a good place for relaxing. Other Americans, reporting on their trips to Paris, said : every day in Paris was hectic and stressful. The human population density in Paris is 25 times greater than the human population density in New York City. I recently read a quotation printed on a picture poster : "The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes".
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Arctophilia, Northamptonshire, England
34998 posts
If you had been in Ireland today and tomorrow you may have seen gales and heavy rain and cold.
Posted by
San Francisco/Marin County
9442 posts
More day trips from Paris: Vaux le Vicomte and Malmaison
Posted by
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2779 posts
It'll be mild and green in Ireland at the end of October. In fact I'm just back and it was t-shirt weather, sunny.
Posted by
victoria, Canada
11536 posts
Andreas your advise is unsafe to offer,, there WAS a warm snap through alot of western Europe,, but it is definately NOT normally tshirt weather in Ireland in late October.
Posted by
US Pacific Northwest
10344 posts
http://www.wunderground.com/tripplanner/index.asp Go to above site for last 15 years of weather in Ireland location of interest during dates you'll be there.