20 July 2025, 08:21 | Updated: 21 July 2025, 09:38

By Johnny Jenkins

Please stick with me. I don’t always enjoy holidays.

That’s especially true for European city breaks. I’ve been to plenty of places on the continent - Paris, Milan, Amsterdam - usually for a long weekend. But many of these destinations end up feeling oddly similar.

It starts in an airport inconveniently far away from my house. For some reason, you have to arrive ridiculously early only to be dragging your heels round expensive shops.

And there’s the connection once you’ve landed, often in an over-priced taxi or an over-crowded train.

You get a night’s rest and then you’re off exploring.

There’s always the cathedral.........

© LBC