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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for all the great suggestions! I will ask the kids about Edinburgh, Copenhagen and Lisbon. [/quote]
IMO Edinburgh alone is not worth 6 days; you could throw in Glasgow. If they like Viking history, you could take the train to York for a couple of days, too.

I hear Porto is nicer than Lisbon. I've been to the Algarve region, and it wasn't all that.
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I’m the poster who said Lisbon is boring and I think Porto is even more boring. It was nice for a day of wine tasting and wandering around, but there was nothing outstanding about it (and the locals are furious that foreigners have snatched up the bulk of their housing for Airbnbs). The food was pretty good and the wine was good, but there wasn’t anything impressive regarding the architecture or sites.

I think a lot of people just go there to drink. [/quote]
Sure, what places people like is subjective.

I hated Florida, for example, but tons of people seem to go every year.  I just don't see the appeal to places like West Palm Beach. [/quote]

Okay.

But I doubt anyone is trying to compare anywhere in Europe/EU to anywhere in Florida.

I believe we are offering candid feedback on European destinations, right?

I mean, Portugal is right up there with Iceland and Costa Rica on dcum’s travel hate list.

I wouldn’t necessarily write off Portugal entirely, but I standby my assessment that Porto is lackluster. I couldn’t imagine vacationing there for a week. Fwiw, I was there for 5 nights one spring for business and despite my best efforts to “see something” with my local hosts, I found it all rather ho-hum. I enjoyed most of the food, although it wasn’t rave-worthy. And the wine was good. Basically a lot of the tourism seems to center on drinking. And the locals really do have serious beef with foreigners thanks to their impact on the housing market (Airbnbs).

I know people who have tacked Portugal on to longer vacations in Spain. [/quote]

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