So if it's cheap and easy to get to, there's decent accommodation to suit all budgets, and there's masses to see and do, why limit yourself to one trip a year? When it's all on your doorstep, Brits can take a weekend city break one month, and a week in the country the next.

After all, what better way to banish the post-holiday blues than thinking you can do it all again, albeit somewhere entirely different, in a few weeks time?