Weekends away or short breaks
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31046)
United Kingdom
October 22, 2011 9:35am CST
I know that some people in my home country like to go away on the Friday evening and come back on the Sunday evening. That way they can spend two nights away from home in an interesting place. Another kind of short break can be Monday to Friday when it is a school half term. Then I can go further away to a different location. My best short break was in a February half term and I went to Bruges in Belgium. It is known as the Venice of the North with its canal streets. I liked seeing the beautiful old architecture. It snowed whilst I was there so it looked even more picturesque.
Have you enjoyed any weekends away or short breaks?
If you were given a choice to go which destination would you choose for a free trip?
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9 responses
@surekharathi (14146)
• India
22 Oct 11
Friend I want to break from mylot but not for weekend but for full next week and not for traveling but for offline working. Upcoming days will be very busy days for me because India's most famous festival Diwali is coming..
@luvmysons (497)
• United States
26 Oct 11
I love doing weekend getaways.. I think it is great to get away from it all even if it is just for a couple of days.. If I was offered a free trip my place I would want to go to is Italy.. But since I am from United States I would need that trip to be for 1-2 weeks
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
23 Oct 11
I would like to make my bored busy life rather colorful spending in somewhere that is not far away from home. There are several beauty spots in different hill tops here where the weather there are fresh and cold. All of them are great places with fascinating landscape to stay to escape from the blazing weather where we are all the year round 
Of course we would like to visit all of them alternately if we could 
@frankiecesca (2489)
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22 Oct 11
When myself and my husband go on short breaks we try and go mid week so it is quieter and therefore we see more of the sites with less crowds. Plus if I am paying for it ( as sometimes I get reduced or freebies from work), then it is cheaper to avoid travel on weekends.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
26 Oct 11
I usually work seven days a week, but about I did go on two mini vacations in 2011. In June my husband and I went to Haderslev in south of Denmark and we spent two days there. We had a very nice time there. On the first day we walked around in Haderslev and we saw the church, the lake and a couple of other interesting places. The area around the lake was very beautiful. The next day we drove around in the area and we visited a castle and a park full of sculptures. In July we went on another mini vacation, this time we visited the north of Denmark and we spent two days in a town called Skagen. We visited an open air museum and a couple of other places.
@jricky1 (6800)
• China
24 Oct 11
I would really love to have a short break from Friday evening to Sunday evening.For last short break i choose to go another city which near my work place to see my old friend.It's really great to know how people eat and the living styles of the people living in that city.I feel so great to go there and enjoy my life.But if i could have a free trip,that would be more great.
@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
22 Oct 11
I don't get away much anymore, I just don't have the energy or the money to do it too often. I have done weekends to Houston to see some friends, and took a week in May to go to Kansas... I like them both, but I really am just as happy recovering at home.
@huilichan8 (1378)
• Singapore
22 Oct 11
Ya, I hv gone for short wkend trips b4. If I can get a free trip, I wld probably choose to go to Brunei. I hv not been there b4 and since it's near my country, it wld make for a perfect wkend trip.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
22 Oct 11
I had a short trip to Budapest at the beginning of March. It was freezing cold but we still did see, visit, do and walked a lot.
If I could choose now for free I would go to Lanzarote, but since I am on my way (next week) to Hungary again this has to wait.
BTW I would never think about Bruges (Belgium) as the Venice of the North (what do you mean by North?).
Amsterdam is build on canals lot of water, Utrecht the same but what we see in the Netherlands as our Venice (more pitoresk) is Giethoorn.
