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Anonymous wrote:What about a Mediterranean cruise coupled with a few days before/after in Europe? Most Med. cruises are port intensive, so you don't have days and days of hanging out on the ship, and then you can explore cities without having to pack/repack. I think most go out of Barcelona, Rome or Venice, all great cities to explore for a few days.

Along these lines....consider Greece!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not getting much by way of suggestions from her.
I feel like it is approaching the last minute.
Because of our work we are having to be very flexible so we can split the wedding apart from the honeymoon trip.
She says London and go to the Harry Potter museum. I think that sounds horrible. I've explained that London/Paris in the fall doesn't sound great to me because it will be cold/rainy.
I've suggested Tahiti. I've traveled a lot for work but never for pleasure so I'm at a loss here.
She wants a month long trip (ha ha) I'm thinking 2 weeks (max) including travel and re-assimilation.
I figure we need some sort of activities (light adventure stuff) to do during the day. When I was younger (30s... now early 40's) I liked rock climbing, scuba, running but I messed up my back so it needs to be judicious about adventure activities. She is early 30's and is more into her phone than museums so I don't know what we would do in Europe.

We don't drink so sitting on the beach boozing it up or getting drunk at a club doesn't excite us.

I don't have high hopes for your marriage.

Seriously. You sound contemptuous of her. Why are you getting married?

No way. An Indian woman in her 30s would be all about an exotic beach destination that she can Instagram

$5 says Indian arranged marriage.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not getting much by way of suggestions from her.
I feel like it is approaching the last minute.
Because of our work we are having to be very flexible so we can split the wedding apart from the honeymoon trip.
She says London and go to the Harry Potter museum. I think that sounds horrible. I've explained that London/Paris in the fall doesn't sound great to me because it will be cold/rainy.
I've suggested Tahiti. I've traveled a lot for work but never for pleasure so I'm at a loss here.
She wants a month long trip (ha ha) I'm thinking 2 weeks (max) including travel and re-assimilation.
I figure we need some sort of activities (light adventure stuff) to do during the day. When I was younger (30s... now early 40's) I liked rock climbing, scuba, running but I messed up my back so it needs to be judicious about adventure activities. She is early 30's and is more into her phone than museums so I don't know what we would do in Europe.

We don't drink so sitting on the beach boozing it up or getting drunk at a club doesn't excite us.

Anonymous wrote:OP here....

Budget is somewhat flexible I really don't want to spend of 10K but I guess I'm willing to go that high.
I would feel "comfortable" spending 5 - 6 K.

I haven't traveled for pleasure so I'm not sure if this budget is reasonable or not.
Please let me know if my expectations are out of line.

As for Europe, I've done a lot of business travel in Europe (France, UK, and others).
My experience (in France at least) is always that restaurants are closed when I'm hungry and service is poor. The food has never been that great even at "fancy" dinners with clients. When I rent a car I find myself lost driving around a maze of one-way cobblestone streets. So... I'm a little nervous about trying to pull off a relaxing (happy and carefree) honeymoon trip.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not getting much by way of suggestions from her.
I feel like it is approaching the last minute.
Because of our work we are having to be very flexible so we can split the wedding apart from the honeymoon trip.
She says London and go to the Harry Potter museum. I think that sounds horrible. I've explained that London/Paris in the fall doesn't sound great to me because it will be cold/rainy.
I've suggested Tahiti. I've traveled a lot for work but never for pleasure so I'm at a loss here.
She wants a month long trip (ha ha) I'm thinking 2 weeks (max) including travel and re-assimilation.
I figure we need some sort of activities (light adventure stuff) to do during the day. When I was younger (30s... now early 40's) I liked rock climbing, scuba, running but I messed up my back so it needs to be judicious about adventure activities. She is early 30's and is more into her phone than museums so I don't know what we would do in Europe.

We don't drink so sitting on the beach boozing it up or getting drunk at a club doesn't excite us.

I don't have high hopes for your marriage.

Seriously. You sound contemptuous of her. Why are you getting married?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not getting much by way of suggestions from her.
I feel like it is approaching the last minute.
Because of our work we are having to be very flexible so we can split the wedding apart from the honeymoon trip.
She says London and go to the Harry Potter museum. I think that sounds horrible. I've explained that London/Paris in the fall doesn't sound great to me because it will be cold/rainy.
I've suggested Tahiti. I've traveled a lot for work but never for pleasure so I'm at a loss here.
She wants a month long trip (ha ha) I'm thinking 2 weeks (max) including travel and re-assimilation.
I figure we need some sort of activities (light adventure stuff) to do during the day. When I was younger (30s... now early 40's) I liked rock climbing, scuba, running but I messed up my back so it needs to be judicious about adventure activities. She is early 30's and is more into her phone than museums so I don't know what we would do in Europe.

We don't drink so sitting on the beach boozing it up or getting drunk at a club doesn't excite us.

I don't have high hopes for your marriage.