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The canadian side of Niagara Falls is quite beautiful.

It's often booked up on weekends, but Yosemite is a real pleasure and you can get some great deals during the week. You should look to rent a vacation home, so you'll have things like running hot+cold water and even satellite TV. Fly in to Oakland or SFO (oakland is closer), rent a car and take the ~4-hour drive up. The Cathedral Rocks are a true natural wonder as is Yosemite falls. If you have never been to the mountains, the sense of scale in Yosemite is really something else.

Enjoy your time together and have a happy trip.

A mountain lodge. Hot tub. Wine.

I'd recommend trying to get some time in Florence -- a friendly, accessible, easygoing city with lots of great art. I was there a good ten years ago - I loved it.

Rome sort of reminds me of New York, in that it's so historically and culturally significant that you kinda HAVE to see it, but the actual experience of being in the city, from a pleasurability standpoint, is sort of... meh. I mean, it's nowhere as dirty and rude as New York, but coming from Florence, it was a bit of a let-down, environmentally-speaking.

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August isn't the best time to travel Italy. Sorry, let me rephrase that, August is the worst time to travel Italy. Italians take August off, literally.

Barcelona is a nice city, it has a lot of pretty cool scenery and lots of history, especially if you're into architecture. Greece would be an interesting place to check out as well. Are you planning to mostly stay in one area or travel a lot within sections? Ibiza/Barcelona/Nice would be a fun 10 day getaway, spending 2-4 days at each place.

Why is Venice confusing? Barcelona would be a nice place to hang out although I would still advise a visit to the Balaerics if you're in the area, only a short ferry ride...

99% of getting around in Venice is walking, although I'm not sure I'd spend 10 days there in any case, it's not that big.

My fiancee have booked our honeymoon to Barcelona. We are going late Oct/early Nov. Neither of us has been there and we've both heard great things. We ended up booking through Travelocity. I'll PM you details if you want (hotel, $$). We are attracted to the history, architecture (Gaudi, other modernisme followers) and art. Plus there's shopping and great food. We're hoping to take a Catalan cooking class while there. The speak Catalan which is very similar to Spanish. I managed to find a city guide (Insight City Guide) that provides some rudimentary Catalan. But the guides all say that knowing Spanish should be fine. I was going to suggest Scandinavia if you want to travel this month. I've never been but imagine it would be ideal in the heat of summer. That said, we don't like hot weather, so we don't travel to beaches or other places that might be warm. b

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Has anyone ever considered the Azores. It is comprised of nine islands and they are easily accessed by short puddle jumpers or ferries. The ancient myth is that they are the remains of the lost city of Atlantis.
My wife is from the island of Terceira and we have had many visits there. We have also been to St. Michael, which is the most commercial of all the islands. St. Michael though has many wonderful natural sites and fantastic accomodations for cheap $$$$.
If you are looking for paradise for cheap, I would consider a visit there soon. And if your unsure were they are, they are approximatly two thirds of the way across the Atlantic on the same latitude as New York city.
Please feel free to pm me with any questions about staying there and what to do.

Gary