I'm looking at holidays....more dreaming than booking at the moment.

Anyone got any recommendations?

Alternatively where would you really love to go? Or plan out your dream itinerary. Feel free to post links and photos. Can be pics of the places, hotels, sites you want to see, or how you envisage your stay to be.

Go to town with it.

The photo is of Positano, Italy. I've been here, but I would like more time in this area. This is just an example. Thanks

Adele
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I had my bestest holiday last summer. 4 days in a fantastic hotel inland in Bali where everyone wanted to help. Then a four night cruise over the Great Barrier Reef with snorkelling. Then 4 days on Morrea (Tahiti's smaller but more famous cousin) and finally 4 days on a private island just off Tahaa (another French Polynesian island). And all this with the woman I love most in the world, my wife.

Holidays - hmmm, well if its recommendations your after -

I cannot recommend Arillas in Corfu enough, ideally placed to the North West of the island, away from all the hustle and bustle from Corfu town, and Kavos in the South.

Corfu is the most northerly island of the Greek island's - therefore making it one of the lushest and greenest of the islands

If relaxation is what is required - Arillas is the place.
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The majority of Arillas is run by the locals, therefore shuts down between October - May

If fresh locally produced food is to your liking, you going to be in the right place – No, and I repeat No McDonalds or any other fast food outlet in this Village.

Being the most northerly island it's only around 3 and half hours away from ringway, so not long

Corfu is the most northerly island of the Greek island's - therefore making it one of the lushest and greenest of the islands.

We stayed with at the Nikos Apartments a family run business, all the food they served to you was grown around their property, everything was really fresh, also no perfectly round tomatoes here, just odd shaped ones bursting full of flavour, another nice touch was the homemade feta cheese, made by Vassiles’s mother – (hmmm so nice)

So there’s a picture of an Arillas sunset, one the Nikos Apartment and one the best restaurants in Arillas – Graisella, this restaurant involves all there family in everything they do, one particular day we walked past, and they all was carving up a freshly caught Sword Fish, now you can’t get any fresher than that…….

Elizabeth xxx

This post was edited by Elizabeth (Liz) Arlington-Lee at February 8, 2013 12:29 AM GMT

Positano is lovely or anywhere else in the Sorrento/Amalfi area. A lovely hotel I stayed in a few years back was the Hotel Bristol in Sorrento. It's cut into the cliff face with the restaurant and pool terrace at the top. When you look out of your room you can see straight across the Bay of Naples. Heaven!

Usually I enjoy getting my self over to Slovenia, and Croatia, but the Balkans, are totally stunnig as a general! so, here's a self took picture of Tolmin in Sloveniax

Also, Croatia is totally stunning, with some of the most beautiful National Parks, and this is KRKA national park, roughly an hour south of the beautiful Coastal City of Zadar.

So. here's a self took picture, of the Main Waterfall, at the Gorgeous KRKA national park, Croatia.

Depends what the main purpose of the holiday is I guess, and which month you are intending to travel. Budget plays a role too, and clearly you know the Positano area though there are lots of other places in Italy that are worth visiting as well, and wherever you go its very hard to find bad food.

As a tongue in cheek example you could visit 3 places which are TG tolerant; so you could make a tour to include Amsterdam, Brighton and Manchester and visit some museums as well as the various "villages" - get some culture at the Rijksmusemum, Royal Pavilion and the Imperial War Museum along the way.

In the spring time then its a romantic choice of either Amsterdam, Paris or Venezia; they are all romantic and not too full of tourists in March/April, and all have plenty of quirky eating places (and often its warm enough to eat outside) and lots of things to see and do.

If you are going right now then I guess it would be winter sports - and that depends where there is any snow for skiing or snowboarding but Austria is good as are the Dolomites.

Or try Germany - this year is the 200th anniversary of the Brothers Grimm first edition of their famous stories and there are events all over Germany, or you could follow the romantic Rhine route between Duesseldorf and Mainz.

http://germanfairytaleroute.com/cms/upload/_pub/jubilaeumsprospekt_grimm_2013_en.pdf

Hope that helps.

Pauline xxx

PS I didn't include beach holidays as you can find good beaches at many places

My recommendation has to be Havana Cuba,

Sun, Rum, and ........ Salsa!

Amazing place and simply fantastic people

I love all your suggestions. I've a soft spot for beautiful scenery, lakes and mountains, exploring pretty cobbled towns and villages and I love history. I prefer that to sunbathing and beaches, but they're not off the menu either as the lads love to surf.

I'll come back with some more ideas for places I've looked at or I've visited in the past. Give you ideas as to what I like x

Antigua -chilled out ,relaxing, beaches were fab ,and the rum taste better there

south africa . got everything you need from history to beaches ,to table mountain ,plenty of vineyards .need more than 2 weeks to see most of it .