Last year my wife took me away for my birthday. She took me to Dublin and we had a great time shopping, drinking, eating and taking in some culture. I'm looking to return the 'favour' for her birthday at the end of May.

The places I'm considering are Amsterdam (went there 10 years ago), Prague, Saltzburg, Rome, Barcelona, Seville (Just been suggested by a friend). Ideally I'd like to avoid stag do's but I think they'll be few and far between in May.

Does anyone have any other suggestions or any comments regarding the places I've listed? We've been to Paris a few times so that's not somewhere I want to go for this occasion. We'll be going for 2 or 3 days and it doesn't matter if it's midweek or the weekend.

Apologies is this type of thread has been done to death.

Verona is lovely. Only 30 mins from Lake Garda too, so you could do a city/lake break.

Although I've not been to the Spanish cities you have listed, your list looks good.

I'd add Venice, Florence, Berlin, Budapest and maybe Lisbon or Vienna to your possibilities.

Krakow. Cheap, easy to get to, beautiful and loads to see and do. If you need any info PM me.

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Most of the cities mentioned ar very very busy and will be in May.

Could i suggest BRUGES, nice and quiet, lovely place for a meal and a drink, lots of Architecture and culture.

It is not the Venice of the north for nothing.

Alternatively one of the capitals in the scandanavian countries would be a good bet.

Very different to the places mentioned and all lovely and different in their own way.

I like Stockholm , Reykjavik or Copenhagen. Helsinki is is nice as well.

Stayed there for 3 days a few years ago, lovely place.

I'd agree Krakow is nice too. I also liked Warsaw (although alot of people do not). Although I have not been myself, I understand Gdansk is nice too.

If you are trying to be romantic though, Venice everytime in my opinion.

Stockholm, I think it's the nicest city I've been to. Having said that it is pricey, we had the most extravigent meal at Frantzen Lindeburg (if you're into fine dining you must go!) but it ran in at £520 for 2 with one glass of wine each!

But as I say what a great city, it has old part and new part both equally as nice and everything just seemed so well designed and über cool

Another great city which shocked me how good it was is Bordeaux, looking to plan another trip to the wine festival at some point

Yes the women are absolutely stunning, and I say this as a heterosexual male comfortable in my sexuality, the guys were good looking too! A very attractive race indeed.

One thing I couldn't believe was how good everyone's English was and some even apologised for not speaking it well enough.

Very true. They're a good-looking breed.

Several times as my colleague and I were trying to navigate our way round the various 'gatans' of Stockholm, a local approached us and in near-perfect English asked if we needed help. I think I only met 2 or 3 people in all my time there who didn't speak English well.

I even loved the offices over there - many of them have adjustable raising desks so you can stretch your legs and work standing up if you so desire, and every office I visited had a fresh delivery of fruit each morning - we would be offered fruit at every meeting. The environment was just...better. Cleaner and with less unnecessary fuss or formality. Often very minimalist.

Whenever I apologised for not knowing Swedish, they would laugh and just say "well, you don't need to, the world doesn't speak Swedish!" I forgave my ignorance as at the time I had a conversational level of Spanish.

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In Finland the men there have gone to Estonia for years to pick up their trophy wives