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The city break is a phenomenon of our times, and the ability to jet off to a foreign city for two or three nights has broadened all our horizons. In recent years the \u201chot\u201d destinations have gradually moved from Western European capitals to edgier cities further east or south; as each gets taken over by stag and hen parties in search of cheap booze the cognoscenti move on to the next big thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The popularity of a city for a short break is very dependent on the availability of a direct flight from the UK on a low cost airline; cities which may be fascinating to visit but which lack a direct connection thus tend to stay under the radar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I visited such a city in May 2019 and want to urge you to go there before it is discovered; it has an oceanside location, wonderful baroque architecture, inexpensive hotels and restaurants, many museums and galleries and a stupendous opera and ballet theatre with tickets for less than a tenner. I\u2019m talking about Odessa, on the Black Sea coast of southern Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city break is a phenomenon of our times, and the ability to jet off to a foreign city for two or three nights has broadened all our horizons. 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