europa-park in germany is great at all ages :)

http://www.europapark.com/lang-fr/Info-and-services/c51.html

enjoy!

Hay thats actually great because I am going to the Liestal festival near basel this weekend, so not much of a stretch to go up a little further!

Karolina, ill keep the Cracov salt mines in mind as i do love salt mines and poland holds a special place in my heart! So a win win. 

For the party :

Oktoberfest in Munich (late Sept)... Ill be going to that one weekend.

For the scenery;

Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, in fact the Galway Penninsula (very wild country)

Scotland (Highlands)

Amalfi Coast in Italy

Reichenbach water falls near Bern (Sherlock Holmes fame)

Rhine falls at Basel

German Black Forest

Norwegian Fjords

Iceland (for the volcanoes)

Prague

Finish Lapland (for Santa)

etc etc... the list is long

Have a look at these pictures of sites from the Unesco World Heritage list in my home country and see if you find anything you like:

http://patrimoniuromanesc.ro/

Add into the mix good food, cheap drinks and lovely people.

Hi Katherine. If your only visit to Denmark was Copenhagen you have missed the astonish nature that this flat country has. The Island of Bornholm far east of Copenhagen is a gem in the middle of Oestersoen (the only part of the country got occupied by the USSR after the WWII).

More accessible is the west coast of Jutland and with it white sandy beaches strectching from the German border in the South to the picturesque village of Skagen at the far North. On 23 June you will hundreds of bonfire all the way up the coast and during summer the sun almost never sets.

Let me know if you want more info  :-)

Santa is from the North Pole - i.e. Greenland... 

The Far East is not usually considered a part of Europe ;) Just sayin'

Great suggestions everyone! Iv done a few of the suggestions but there is plenty more here to keep me going for a while! And when I say far east i mean ukraine, belarus, moldova, etc,  which last i checked was still europe...

Sorry, but aren't the Rheinfalls in Neuhausen-am-Rhein close to Schaffhausen?

You might find some nice places to visit from http://www.thecoolhunter.net/lifestyle (there are two more links at the bottom of the page)

I didn't read what others wrote so there may be some overlap, and it's hard to give you any advice without knowing more about your taste, but he's my list of must-see cities and attractions (some obvious, some not so).

Netherlands: Amsterdam (my home town), maybe Koninginnedag in Amsterdam (Queen's birthday on 30 April)

Belgium: Brugge/Bruges, possibly Gent and Antwerp

UK: London (best city in Europe IMO, including West End theaters), Edinburgh (if possible during the festival), possibly Cambridge and Stone Henge

France; Mont Saint-Michel (Normandy), Saint Emilion (Bordeaux), perhaps Saint Paul-de-Vence (near Monaco), Burgundy (3 hours from Geneva, great for wine lovers), Eurodisney if you're into that.

Italy: Venice, Rome, Toarmina and the Etna (at Sicily)

Germany: Neuschwannstein castle (near Munich), Oktoberfest in Munich

Czech Republic: Prague, Karlstejn castle (near Prague)

Croatia/Bosnia: Plitvice National Park, Zagreb, possibly Split and Sarajevo

Estonia: Talinn

Greece: Athens, Santorini (island)

Spain: Barcelona, and the Andalucia region (haven't visited it yet myself)

Sweden: The North in winter, including the Ice Hotel near Kiruna and a husky sledge tour.

Russia: St. Petersburg, during white nights

1. Skiing the Dolomites
2. Cruising the med in summer

3. Oktoberfest

4. Lords Test Match Wimbledon

5.  Never done it but tracking a car around the Nurburgring must be up there

Seems I can't edit my previous post but the site has stripped some importnat formatting;

1. Skiing the Dolomites
2. Cruising the med (in a cruise ship) in summer

3. Oktoberfest

4. Lords Test Match and,or Wimbledon

5.  Never done it but tracking a car around the Nurburgring must be up there

yep...  spot on... but I remember driving past basel for that