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Until the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall, Eastern Europe was one of the last places in the world where Westerners would have considered spending their honeymoons. It was a place of foreboding gray and Communist red architecture, where the once vibrant cultures of the independent Eastern European nations had been subdued into ideology.
The Eastern Europe of today, however, is a honeymooners’ delight, with welcoming locals, affordable accommodations, mesmerizing history, and unforgettable scenery. From the bustle of the market squares in the major cities to the quiet, almost surreal surroundings of Lake Bled, your Eastern European honeymoon will have something you will not find anywhere else.
Honeymooning in Eastern Europe will let you experience cultures as varied as the geography of their nations. You can spend one day basking on golden beaches or biking through the vineyards of Crete, and another strolling along Vienna’s Kohlmarket, where you can relax with cake and coffee at Demel, perhaps the premier chocolatier in all of Europe.
If the romance of ancient ruins captivates you, head for the village of Pula on the southwestern Croatian coast. As long ago as 177 BC, Pula was an outpost of the Roman Empire at its amphitheater dates back to the first century. The amphitheater, which measures 435′ x 345′ is one of the best preserved of all those built by the Romans. You will be able to visit its lower levels, where both gladiators and wild animals were housed until they were ready to do battle.
You will find other historical treasures in every major city of Eastern Europe, from Warsaw and Kraków in Poland to Budapest in Hungary. A marvelous way to spend your Eastern European honeymoon would be to focus on the sites along the Danube Bend, which flows past the Hungarian towns of Szentendre, Visegrad, and Esztergom. If you are honeymooning between April and the end of October, you can book passage on a boat excursion in Budapest, and enjoy the marvelous scenery and hilltop castles as you glide along the Danube to the town of your choice.
Your honeymoon in Eastern Europe will give you and your new spouse both a romantic getaway, and an adventure in one of the world’s most newly revitalized areas!
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Honeymoon Escape
What is the ideal length for your honeymoon? You want to honeymoon long enough to help you and your new spouse unwind after all the chaos and excitement leading up to your wedding. You want to honeymoon long enough to enjoy your surroundings, and let yourselves have enough private time together before you return to your careers and get on with the business of married life. But you do not want a honeymoon so long that it stretches your budget, because as newlyweds setting up a household, you have other important things on which to spend your money.
The best way to decide how long your honeymoon should be is to review several honeymoon packages. Available in three, four, and seven night stays, honeymoon packages will give you the best value for your money, and most of them will take you to one of the world’s great romantic getaways.
A four-night honeymoon package is great if you are being careful with your budget. You will have to enough time to get comfortable being husband-and-wife, and enough time to take in your surroundings. But a four night honeymoon package will not give you much time to travel, so you will have to honeymoon fairly close to home.
A seven-night honeymoon package, on the other hand, will let you choose a destination almost anywhere, so you will have access to a much greater range of honeymoon adventures. If you are an active couple, you might not want to spend your entire honeymoon snuggling, and having a week at a tropical island resort where you can windsurf and Scuba dive as well as lounge by the pool could be the perfect answer.
Perhaps you only have time for a three-day weekend honeymoon immediately following your wedding, and are planning a longer get away later on. So why not book the honeymoon suite at the most luxurious hotel in the closest major city, or arrange to stay at a romantic Bed-and-Breakfast where you be given as much privacy as you like in charming surroundings, with a marvelous home-cooked breakfast to greet you when you wake each morning.
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If you are willing to postpone your honeymoon for a few months, you can stretch your honeymoon budget remarkably by scheduling your trip during the off-season. While you may have to take chances with the weather, most resort areas have enough indoor activities to keep you busy, and as newlyweds, you will find other ways of keeping busy on your own!
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No other continent on Earth evokes a sense of romance and wonder in quite the same way as the continent of Africa. If you and your soon-to-be husband or wife had been dreaming of a romantic and exotic honeymoon adventure, you will find no better place to have it than in Africa.
Your African Honeymoon
Imagine yourself honeymooning in a secluded romantic getaway along one of Africa’s coasts. Picture yourself enjoying the solitude of one of Africa’s vast wilderness areas, or cruising along the shores of one of the pristine African islands. Your honeymoon in Africa will give you an experience far removed from a honeymoon spent in one of the world’s more traditional honeymoon destinations, with their mass tourist appeal.
A honeymoon in exotic Africa will let you spend your time in a location which is secluded and uncrowded. You will find yourselves completely removed from the noise and bustle of more popular honeymoon spots, as your African safari honeymoon find you driving on wild game-viewing tours through unspoiled African bush or the endless spaces of the Serengeti before returning to your secluded luxury lodgings. Dine under the African stars as the calls of night creatures sound overhead.
Book your African honeymoon stay at a remote Botswanan lodge, where you’ll be close to one of the world’s most romantic natural wonders, Victoria Falls. Combine your visit to Victoria Falls with a trip to either the Madwike Game Preserve or Kruger National Park. A stay at the Royal Malewane Lodge in Kruger National Park will let you immerse yourself in every imaginable luxury from butler service and four course meals, to outdoor showers or soothing bubble baths.
Whether you are honeymooning as a brand-new couple, or as a couple with a blended family, a honeymoon in exotic Africa will be nothing short of magic. Every day of your stay will bring its own adventure, and you will leave Africa knowing that you have been touched in an unforgettable way!
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Gondola Ride in Venice
The culture of no other country in the world embraces life with as much zest as the Italian culture. Italy is a country vibrant with emotion, celebration, and opportunities to dive into life at full speed. But it is also a country full of quiet museums, peaceful hillside vineyards, golden beaches, ancient ruins and hushed cathedrals. Italy, in other words, is a splendid place for a honeymoon.
Spending your honeymoon in Italy can find you enjoying the romance of a moonlit Venetian gondola ride, complete with serenade. Or it might find you hiking the expanses and drinking in the magnificent Dolomite views of the Alpe de Suisi at 6500 feet in altitude Europe’s largest alpine meadow.
If your ideal honeymoon in Italy would be a combination of relaxing days at the beach, and a trip back in time, you won’t do better than to stay among the harbor villages and historic ruins of the Amalfi Coast. If your honeymoon budget does not allow an overnight stay in the area, you should at least experience a bus ride coast along the Amalfi Coast, where you will pass hotels and private villas clinging as if by magic to vertical hillsides above cliffs dropping some 500 feet to the tiny beaches below.
If you do not mind the idea of spending part of your honeymoon in Italy among the crowds of one of the world’s great cities, head for Rome. From the glories of Vatican City, the Villa Borghese, and St. Peter’s, to the somewhat commercial charms of the Pasta Museum, you will find something in Rome to fill every minute of your day there. Visit the oldest public art collections in the world at the Capitoline Museum. Climb the Spanish Steps for and on parallel view of the city, and on your descent stop in at the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, a tribute to two of the world’s greatest romantics and a fitting place to visit on your honeymoon in Italy!
End your days activities by relaxing, as the Italians do, over a leisurely supper and one of Rome’s tucked-away eateries, which you can find in the older part of the city, the Trastevere. You will be treated to authentic, freshly-prepared Italian cuisine at remarkably affordable prices, and you will never look at take-out from an Italian restaurant back at home the same way again!
Your honeymoon in Italy, no matter where you decide to spend it, will be an exciting, romantic, and fun-filled experience and the perfect way to begin the marvelous years ahead!
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Check out some pictures from our trip to Italy in 2006
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If your idea of the perfect romantic setting contains scenes of mountain streams coursing through lush alpine meadows; medieval castles towering over the banks of winding rivers; narrow cobbled streets winding past watchmakers and chocolate shops; and sunny beer and wine gardens where you and your bride or groom can relax over a bratwurst or Sachertorte, then you deserve to honeymoon in Germany.
Germany offers far more, of course, then the scenes you would expect to find in a box of Bavarian Christmas cards. Germany’s culture is one of the world’s greatest, and has been responsible for philosophical, artistic, and musical revolutions. Germany’s marvelous cultural heritage is celebrated both in her museums, and in marvelous festivals held throughout the year.
A honeymoon in Germany during the month of October will find you there for Munich’s Oktoberfest, where you will be joined by hundreds of thousands of visitors to celebrate the national beverage, beer. Each of Germany’s other great cities, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Stuttgart has something unique to add to your honeymoon.
Römer square in Frankfurt - Picture: Wikipedia
Germany’s capital, Berlin, is the site of magnificent architecture, important museums, and Germany’s premiere theaters. Spending your honeymoon in Berlin will allow you the opportunity to explore its history, and to experience authentic German cuisine at some of its marvelous restaurants and cafés.
For a look at modern Germany, your honeymoon in Germany should take you to Frankfurt, the country’s financial capital. Frankfurt has a cosmopolitan atmosphere that you expect from one of the great cities of Europe, and if you arrive in Frankfurt by train, you will be struck by the city’s multiculturalism. You will find Frankfurt’s remarkable museums along the south bank of the Main River, and can get a look at the city’s beginnings with a walking tour of the Romerberg, Frankfurt’s Market Square.
No honeymoon in Germany would reach its romantic potential without some time spent in the Bavarian highlands in the south of the country. The Bavarian forest is Europe’s largest mountain forest, and it is within a day’s drive of Munich.
Medieval Germany survives in the towns of Heidelberg and Marksburg. Heidelberg is the site of one of Europe’s greatest universities, and Marksburg, on the Rhine River south of Koblenz`, is the site of Marksburg Castle. The only surviving medieval castle along the Rhine, black-and-white Marksburg Castle now houses a museum with a marvelous authentic medieval interior.
Romance, history, and magnificent natural surroundings are what will make your honeymoon in Germany an unforgettable beginning to your married life!
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