T H E
L I S T
OK, we admit it. We’re addicted to mini-breaks. But we’re not going to give them
up for 2014, oh no. Here’s what we’re marking on our calendar this year…
Something for the
weekend
FEBRUARY
It’s carnival time in
TENERIFE
’s
capital, Santa Cruz, kicking off at
the end of Feb. As you’d expect
from a place twinned with Rio,
that’s a seriously big deal. Forget
what you think you know about the
Canaries’ biggest island, and take
to the streets with locals for
a traditional and totally OTT fiesta.
JUNE
Voted Europe’s
Leading
City Break
Destination
at the World
Travel Awards,
LISBON
's in
the spotlight
and St
Antonio’s Day
fiesta on the
12th makes a
great excuse to
check it out.
MAY
As guilty pleasures go,
Eurovision's up
there, but there's
nothing guilty about
our love for 2014
host
Copenhagen
.
What a
great excuse to return to
the land of hot blondes,
hot dogs and
The Killing
.
MARCH
Paris
in the spring is a no-brainer. But with the extra
draw of the Eiffel Tower’s 125th
anniversaire
and a
new Van Gogh exhibition at the Musée D’Orsay, it's
no wonder
Lonely Planet
named it top city of 2014.
JANUARY
Joy and winter don’t have
to part company after
Christmas – at least not in
VIENNA
. While some ice
rinks are slushy by now,
the prettily lit Vienna Ice
Dream (
wienereistraum.
com
) only opens this
month, so the surface
is pristine. Factor in
the famous balls (take a
waltzing lesson), cosy
cafés and two ski resorts,
and then watch your
January blues melt away.
APRIL
Iceland’s thermodynamic
landscape inspired Jules Verne’s
1854 novel,
Journey to the Centre
of the Earth
. Celebrate its 150
th
anniversary in
REYKJAVIK
with
a trip to the centre of an actual
volcano (
insidethevolcano.com
).
Trust us, it’s stranger – and
way
more exciting – than fiction.
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