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Top 10 Sexiest Summer Locations

After saving you guys a bucket load of dosh with articles like our budget travel tips and then some, a decision was made to ratchet up the va va voom factor. Ladies and gents, boys and girls, and those of you in between, prepare to feast your eyes on Europe’s sexiest cities and all the loving therein.

1. Paris

   It’s known the world over as the city of lights and love but beyond the Hollywood romanticism, here’s where the romance really happens. Montmartre is notorious in the hot French summers - for the meeting of artistically inspired minds, a shared glass of crisp - cold white wine in cafes famed for hosting Degas in his day and then some. Beyond that if you’re really looking for something to scratch that certain, je ne se quoi itch, then the downstairs DIY section of the store BHV, is notoriously appropriate. Insert joke about people shopping for screws here.

2. London

   If you associate romance in the British capital with Sliding Doors and Notting Hill, then stop reading right now and slap yourself in the face with a frozen fish. London loving this summer is all about the £10 tickets to Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, playing out Romeo and Juliet in St Jame’s Park with her majesty’s protected pelicans fluttering in the background and taking a long, drawn out, intimate stroll along Regent’s Canal into Shoreditch, and all the super cool eateries and bars, herein.

3. Bruges

   This is a simple formula. Add the best chocolate in the world to the most romantic of cobbled street backgrounds. Subtract the stress of work, home and the real world. Add more than two hundred varieties of beer and the result is a hormone frenzy inducing, good time! If you like it old school then take it slow with a horse ride from Grote Markt or jump on one of the many canal boats - for a refreshing tour of the old town. Alternatively start with the culinary orgasm inducing Chocolate Line on Simon Stevinplein and finish at brand new nightclub, Entrenous.

4. Amsterdam

   As you can imagine, the sexy times in this city are even more clear cut! Of the many alternative names for this place, the City of Sin sums it up best. From the Red Light District and legalised live sex shows, to menus selling spliffs and shops vending ‘mushrooms’ in all their incarnations (cookie and cake style), this place takes the vice riddled biscuit. In fact it takes said biscuit and makes it even dirtier. Woof. If you’ve no idea where to start, why not warm up at the unashamed Sex Museum on Damrak?

5. Berlin

   Berlin has a bad rep as a city that only caters to the kinky people in the backpacking crowd, with repressed dark rooms at the back of bars full to the brim with whips, handcuffs and bankers harbouring serious bondage fetishes. The city does of course offer this but for a less extreme approach to summer loving, start by taking that certain, special Mr or Mrs Right Now, to Marx-Engels-Forum, near Alexanderplatz. In a city de-centralised to the extreme after the Cold War, this is one of the few places where you can get a good view of the entire skyline. Wrap your arm around someone as you take in the sight of the TV Tower, the Rote Rathaus and much more.

6. Bath

   For Jane Austin to find love in Bath, she had to re-write the rules of social propriety and popularise it in her novels. Fortunately it’s not so hard for you guys in twenty first century Britain. For the wine-ing, start with a drink at Belushi’s. For the dining, head over to Sally Lunn’s Café at number four, Parade Passage. Then for the warming up, head along to the Thermae Bath Spa – Britain’s only natural hot spring spa, complete with a roof top pool, overlooking the gorgeous - Georgian architecture riddled valley. It is quite simply, breath taking.

7. Edinburgh

   How do you make Edinburgh sexy I hear you ask? Well it’s elementary my dear backpacker. You start off with the Literary Pub Tour - this counts towards the impressive, culturally informed part of any date and it involves alcohol. Next you need a good fright to make the boy or girl of your dreams jump into your arms, so step up the 9pm Cadies and Witchery Ghost Tour! From there you might want to finish things off with a tasty little treat. You need to splurge on this front so head to veggie restaurant extraordinaire, David Bann on St. Marys St. Sorted.

8. Newquay

   You know that phrase from Grease: “I saved her life, she nearly drowned. He showed up, splashing around?” Well in Newquay you sun kissed boys and girls can make it happen for real because this seaside town just happens to be the surfing Mecca of the United Kingdom. Better yet the Escape Surf School is next door to the St Christopher’s backpacker hostel, so you can jump out of bed, jump into a wetsuit and hit the waves at your convenience! Pay tribute to Pamela from Baywatch or look on like the Hoff. It’s your call in this sea loving location.

9. Brighton

   Picture this if you will. You arrive in a town where people make a point of making eye contact and smile at strangers, and you’re walking along a blissfully serene seafront promenade. The sun is setting over the burnt out ruins of the West Pier, the remaining pier is a hive of activity and the sweet smell of candy floss is floating through the air. Now make all that a reality with a summer holiday to Brighton! Street entertainers thrive on the crowds who without exception, lap up the talent on offer here and the icecream vendors along the cosy, cobbled shopping lanes, make that stroll with someone special, all the more memorable. Brighton’s also known as London on Prozac and you guys are going to love it.

10. Prague

    Rounding off the top ten in July is the delicious little city of Prague. With a mini Eifel Tower (the Petrin Tower), a plethora of slow moving and smooch friendly boat cruises, and most hearty, Eastern European food than you can shake a stick at, this Czech city ticks all the boxes. Old school, communist era trams rule supreme in the streets, the markets spanning Charles Bridge make for the perfect slow saunter and the Astronomical clock in the centre of town adds a little mysticism to the ride, predicting your future and all that it entails.

- Rob Savage