EURO CITY BREAK

Let’s be honest, February can be a bit dreary. The Christmas lights have long since come down and summer feels a lifetime away. That is exactly why we need Valentine’s Day. It’s the perfect excuse to shake off the winter blues, pack a weekend bag and escape somewhere magical with the one you love. Forget the cliché of petrol station flowers or a rushed dinner at your local Italian chain restaurant. This year you need a proper adventure. You need cobbled streets, breathtaking

Florence is a city that can overwhelm you with its sheer beauty. It is a place where the weight of history is not heavy but rather golden and glowing. Walking through the streets of the capital of Tuscany feels like stepping onto a living movie set where every corner reveals a masterpiece that changed the course of Western civilisation. It is a compact city of stone palaces, frescoed churches and narrow alleys that suddenly open up into vast, statue-filled piazzas. But Floren