Birthday Holidays in Europe

If there's one thing any birthday holiday should contain, it's excellent food and wine. Make a beeline for one of the continent's capitals - Paris, Rome, Madrid - for your pick of the finest Michelin-starred restaurants and luxurious hotels around. Alternatively, head to a smaller city like Porto, on the Portuguese coast, for tours of the pretty cobbled streets and historic Port houses, and trips into the rolling hills of the Douro Valley for vineyard visits and wine tastings.

For a truly show stopping birthday getaway, head to gorgeous Greece. Spend your days island-hopping and topping up your suntan aboard a luxurious yacht, and your evenings soaking up beautiful sunsets from the terrace of your hotel... bliss.