France
Nice is the Riviera in one city — a pebble beach, a market, and a gateway to the Côte d'Azur.
Nice is the easy base for the French Riviera — a beach, a daily market, and trains to Cannes, Monaco, and Antibes. Walk the Promenade des Anglais and eat socca in the old town.
How long
2–4 days
Currency
Euro (EUR). Cards widely accepted.
Language
French. English in tourist areas.
Getting around
Walk and tram; trains run the whole coast.
Budget range
€90–170 per person per day at mid-range.
France
Bordeaux is wine country in a city — a UNESCO riverfront of 18th-century stone and the world's wine capital.
France
Lyon is France's gastronomic capital — Renaissance alleys, river confluences, and bouchons that are the real France.
France
Paris is best in fragments, not checklists — one river, one museum, one cafe at a time.
Croatia
Split is a Roman emperor's retirement palace — Diocletian's, still lived in, with the sea on one side and ferries to the islands on the other.
Finland
Helsinki is a Nordic capital by the Baltic — design, saunas, and a sea-archipelago on the doorstep.
Italy
Naples is Italy raw and real — pizza where it was invented, a castle over the bay, and Pompeii an hour away.
Greece
Thessaloniki is Greece's second city — Byzantine churches, a waterfront, and the best food in the country, Athenians say.
Spain
Bilbao is the Basque industrial city reborn by a Guggenheim — old and new in one rebuilt river town.
Norway
Oslo is a fjord capital reborn — a waterfront of museums, opera, and a forest on the metro.
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