Where to go in winter: 7 places for holidays with mom
Every person has a list of what you need to do in life: some plant trees and build houses, others jump with a parachute, others swim with dolphins ... But in all these lists there should be a point “take mother to leave”. No time to explain: just call your mom and tell me it's time to pack a suitcase. And we have put together options for you, where you can comfortably go with your mother, even if the vacation happened in the winter.
TEXT: Evgenia Pisman
Vein
Austria
Flight Moscow - Vienna and back - from 12 thousand rubles, accommodation - from 50 euros for a double room per day, a ticket to the Bruegel exhibition with a certain time period - 20 euros. Need a Schengen visa.
If your vacation fell on December, take your mother to Vienna: the Austrian capital turned into the museum center of Europe with the epic exhibition of Peter Bruegel the Elder, and also Claude Monet (you probably remember the cathedral and the water lilies) and Pirosmani, not to mention Klimt and Schiele, who here is a permanent residence permit. The exhibition of Bruegel is not for nothing called a sensational, epic and the most ambitious: paintings from Rotterdam, Madrid and private collections came to Vienna, as a result, about half of his existing paintings were in the halls of the art museum. Tickets must be reserved in advance by selecting a time slot. And you can give your mother a gift and buy tickets for Friday evening for 49 euros: without a crowd, with a guided tour in English and a glass of champagne. Back in December in Vienna, Christmas markets and full jingle belles with Viennese schnitzel, strudel and the famous Viennese coffee.
Antalya
Turkey
Direct flight Moscow - Antalya and back - from 6 thousand rubles by Pobeda airline; Aeroflot and other airlines are also flying. Accommodation - from 30 euros for a double room per day, fresh pomegranate - 1 euro. No visa required.
Plus seventeen, pomegranate freshes, deserted beaches, the sea smells of salt and watermelon - winter Antalya can replace the sanatorium and help everyone to relax. You can begin to make the top of the most delicious chorbasa - thick and tender Turkish soup, just for the local winter, and at the same time get gastronomic inspiration. You can drink hot salep with a pink scent - a special Turkish jelly, which is made from the roots of the orchis (mountain orchids). And to talk, to talk, to talk - surely you are not so often together, and this is a chance to listen to each other without haste. Then you can show your mother the next ancient ruins of the ancient city of Perge or go to the impressive Duden waterfalls - in winter they are especially deep.
Paris
France
Direct flight Moscow - Paris and back - from 21 thousand rubles, accommodation - from 50 euros for a double room per day, lunch of the day in a cafe - from 10 euros. Need a Schengen visa.
To give Paris to mom is an act that automatically adds ten advantages to karma (or even one hundred). If you go immediately after the New Year, you can get to the Christmas sales and catch the highlight on the Champs Elysees. However, Paris is beautiful at any time of the year, and dank February is an opportunity to get closer to Dzhokonda to see her smile. The Orsay Museum with its Impressionists, the Rodin Museum, the Louvre - in the winter, it's time to slowly walk through galleries free from crowds of tourists. Ship on the Seine, the Eiffel Tower, coffee with local pastries - arrange a classic tourist program. Go to the supermarket and get lost in a hundred kinds of cheeses. Or collect a picnic set and arrange it right in the hotel room. Or maybe mom had always dreamed of seeing Disneyland, but she was embarrassed to even admit it to herself?
Jerusalem
Israel
Direct flight Moscow - Tel Aviv and back - from 18 thousand rubles. Accommodation in Jerusalem - from 100 euros for a double room per night. Falafel on the street - 5 euros. No visa required.
Take mom to holy places and so that there is no risk of getting sunstroke? That is why the winter in Israel was invented, mild and warm. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Basilica of the Nativity of Christ in Bethlehem, the place of the baptism of Christ on the Jordan River - a mother interested in Christianity will be pleased. For the mother of the Jewish religion there will be a slightly different set - from the Wailing Wall and the tomb of King David. However, for any person who is interested in history and culture, Israel is a storehouse of impressions.
After the excursion program, mother can be brought to Eilat - water, of course, is not fresh milk, but many tourists continue to swim and see the fish on the beaches closer to the border with Egypt. And you can just walk along the promenade under the rustle of palm trees: even in the winter afternoon, the sun in Eilat can be twenty-five degrees Celsius. Israel is a concentrate of life and taste even in February: crispy puff burekas in bakeries, strawberries in supermarkets, large noisy families on the streets, everyone is chanting, laughing, jostling - as they say in Israel, Oshim haim, or "make life" . The perfect vaccination against the Russian winter.
Rome
Italy
Direct flight Moscow - Rome and back - from 10-13 thousand rubles. Accommodation in Rome - from 50 euros for a double room per night. A portion of pasta - 8 euros. Need a Schengen visa.
We insist: all megaturistic places should be visited in the off-season. No wonder Brodsky loved Venice in February, with the smell of frozen algae and the sound of bells. Similarly, Rome and Florence are not crowded with tourists in summer, and in winter you can become one of your own. With my mother, of course: show her the Sistine Chapel, walk through the halls of the Vatican museums without crowds, throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain without working with your elbows. The Roman Forum, the Colosseum - everywhere is not crowded, a little melancholic and very atmospheric.
The gastronomic program in Rome is as important as the cultural one: homemade pasta, crispy pizza, zucchini flowers and other luxuries that you definitely need to try. The weather also whispers to go to a cozy place and thoroughly walk through the menu in order to walk around the Eternal City with new forces. In addition, in early January, sales start here. And you can also expand the program and arrange an Italian vacation for your mother: get to Florence, Venice or Pisa, where Pobeda airline flies from Russia.
Goa
India
A tour from Moscow for fourteen days to a hotel of an average price category - from 100 thousand rubles for two. Ayurvedic massage - from 10 euros. Need a visa.
With a firm spirit and a cheerful mother, you can go to Goa. Sign up for morning yoga on the beach, then restore the balance of fresh coconut and go for an Ayurvedic massage. Mango, papaya, guava and other exotics in vegetable shops, fresh juices for every taste are an excellent fruit charge to survive the inevitable Russian winter. Fried shrimps, mussels, lobsters - let's not say that all seafood here is very cheap, but at least they were caught in the morning. One more plus of rest in Goa, except for the warm sea - there are no cult attractions here: you can indulge in the beach without feeling guilty because of lost sight-seeing objects (Portuguese forts and Hindu temples do not count). Or go to Old Goa, the former capital of the Portuguese, for luxurious Catholic churches to put a tick in front of the excursion program.
Muscat
Oman
Tour from Moscow for eleven days in a 4 * hotel - from 115 thousand rubles for two. The flight Moscow - Oman and back - from 18 thousand rubles for a flight with a transfer. A plate of shrimp on the grill in a restaurant - 15 euros. Need a visa.
If Goa is too extreme for mom, but you want the sea in winter and a relatively short flight, go to Oman. Five and a half hours of direct flight from Moscow, and you will find a classic beach holiday with elements of snorkeling. You can swim with a mask, watch dolphins frolicking and listen to the silence of the desert. Oman is more about nature, although the queen of Sheba rules here once and went the way of incense. Oman has good roads, so you can safely take your mother by the hand and go on an excursion to the Wakhiba desert for stunning landscapes from the endless sands and fancy dunes - or look for turtles on the Diamond Islands. A trip to Oman is an ideal holiday option for mom, who answers all the offers: "I have already been there."
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