City Breaks🇪🇺 Bologna
Choosing a City Break by What You Actually Want From It
City break lists rank cities against each other, which is useless without knowing what kind of weekend you are after.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026All Articles
Nightlife🇪🇺 Rome
Rome After Dark: Aperitivo, Piazzas and Where Romans Drink
Rome's evening is a slow drift between piazzas rather than a night out, and the good bars are away from the monuments.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026
Food & Drink🇪🇺 Lisbon
Lisbon Eating: Tascas, Markets and the Bill You Did Not Order
Lisbon's best eating is in small neighbourhood restaurants at lunchtime, and one custom regularly surprises visitors on the bill.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026
City Guides🇪🇺 Barcelona
Barcelona's Neighbourhoods: Where the City Stops Being a Queue
Barcelona's famous sights are ticketed and busy, and its neighbourhoods are free and mostly empty of visitors.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026
City Itineraries🌏 Bangkok
Bangkok in Three Days: The River, the Trains and the Escape
Bangkok's geography splits into a river half and a rail half, and a three-day trip works best when it respects that.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026
Weekend Breaks🌏 Hakone
Japan Weekend Trips: What Fits Around Tokyo and Kyoto
Japan's rail network makes short trips out of the big cities unusually easy, and a weekend reaches further than expected.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026
City Breaks🇪🇺 Paris
Paris After Dark: The City's Second Shift
Paris in the evening runs on different rules, and a short trip that ignores them sees only the daytime half.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026
City Breaks🇪🇺 Tirana
The Cheap European Weekend: Where €200 Still Covers Everything
There are still European cities where a two-night weekend costs less than a single night in Zurich, and several are excellent.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026
City Breaks🇪🇺 Berlin
Berlin: A City Where the History Is the Sightseeing
Berlin's major sights are mostly free, mostly outdoors, and mostly about the twentieth century rather than the picturesque.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026
City Breaks🇪🇺 Lisbon
Lisbon: The Hills Decide Where You Stay
Lisbon is built on seven hills paved with polished stone, and the neighbourhood you book determines how tiring the weekend is.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026
City Breaks🇪🇺 Amsterdam
Amsterdam: Two Tickets Decide Whether the Trip Works
Amsterdam's two headline museums book out further ahead than almost anything in Europe, and there is no walk-up option.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026
City Breaks🇪🇺 Budapest
Budapest: The Baths Are the Trip, Everything Else Is Extra
Budapest's thermal baths are not a spa treat but the city's defining institution, and they change how a weekend is planned.
City Break Editorial
August 15, 2026