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Does somewhere that has won awards for best location, best bar and best cocktail tickle your fancy?

Be sure to squeeze in a trip to Saltwater Bar & Restaurant when you head off to Nottingham.

As the title suggests , the venue boasts great views of the city alongside an extensive cabinet of cocktails and fine drinks.

"Simple", "honest", "British food" is on the menu, which encompasses foreign influences to suit most tastes.

Two courses range from £10 if you choose from the Saltwater's express menu and eat between Monday and Saturday from 17:30 to 19:00.

Saltwater's rooftop bar offers Ibiza and Miami-style entertainment from a range of top DJs and can cater for 250 with outdoor heating.

Parties can be booked on the terrace, which overlooks sights across the city.

If you're lucky you might catch a glimpse of famous Nottingham Castle, which is off Maid Marion Way on the outskirts of the central business district.

It too sports a bar, but this one is hundreds of years old and carved into the rock beneath the Castle.

Be sure to pay it and the artefacts and artwork in this medieval former ducal residence which takes guests back through 15 centuries of Nottingham history a visit.

Saltwater is a ten-minute walk from Nottingham Castle near the cheap hotels in the city.

Look Lord Nelson in the eye in London and ask whether he has ever been treated so well.

The Trafalgar hotel in London does its utmost to give guests the best memories of a stay in England's capital.

Visitors can check out the nearby theatre zone on one of the hotel's stage packages.

This season it's Rainman, starring Hollywood actor Josh Hartnett.

Starting in October are the Trafalgar's cooking classes where guests can go behind the scenes to learn top tips from the creme de la creme of city chefs.

Parties of four to eight people are accepted for £50 a head, the proceeds of which go to charity.

On the roof, events for up to 70 people can be booked at Rockwell bar, which overlooks Trafalgar Square.

The Trafalgar is the first non-branded Hilton hotel, so it has all the luxuries with none of the generic design.

Each room has been carefully crafted from white interiors and walnut furniture - entry to the gym is available to every guest.

Also on offer in-house are five special spaces for conferences, press briefings and meetings.

Be sure to check out the sofas with your Wi-Fi on the roof and the Ibiza/Nelson style chic in the affordable accommodation in London.

Robert Bradford exhibits Plastic, which is artwork made from toys, at the hotel this year.

Some of the world's best artists will exhibit in Paris this autumn for one of the most prestigious art events in the world.

Globally-renowned gallery La Louvre will host some of the show while the Grand Palais will host other elements.

There are events, conferences, performances, previews and fairs to mark the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), which runs from October 23rd to 26th.

Check out some cheap hotels in Paris early to avoid the rush and buy a ticket for the art fest quick.

There are 25 partners to the FIAC, which will feature artists that have been short listed for the prestigious Marcel Duchamp prize.

Artists Michel Blazy, Stephane Calais, Laurent Grasso and Didier Marcel are in the running for this year's title.

Promising personalities have also been invited to share their opinions on the international exhibition.

For more information on where to buy your admission visit the FIAC 2008 website.

Tourist offices recommend visiting Paris in the autumn because several airlines offer special out-of-season airfares.

Hotels also do cheap deals and tourist attractions are generally less squashed.

Wrap up warm though - temperatures can reach as low as five degrees Celsius, according to Go Paris, and there's a fair bit of rain.

Paris exhibits work from a controversial artist whose paintings are so significant they are fought over.

Expressionist Emil Nolde's work is so renowned it is shown all over the world.

The Moderna Museet in Sweden currently shows Blumengarten (Utenwarf) which was painted in 1917.

It is an example of Nolde's flower paintings, completed in admiration of Vincent Van Gogh.

Controversy surrounding Nolde's art work hit the headlines following reports it had been looted from a German-Jewish refugee.

A Holocaust survivor group is demanding its return, which authorities have said is between the family and the museum.

Nolde was a member of the Nazi party which did not recognise Expressionist work.

Hitler removed more than 1,000 paintings during his rule in Germany.

Until that time Nolde's art had been celebrated.

Paris's Les Galeries Nationales due Grand Palais offers visitors the chance to see for themselves at an exhibition which runs from September 25th to January 19th next year.

Guests will be able to see Nolde's watercolours in the very first exhibition of his work to be organised in Paris.

Book into some affordable accommodation in Paris by the Grand Palais or Grand Palace.

The gallery stands on the VIIIe arrondissement of the capital.

A battle for better integration is the subject of a special exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

Haskala is the name of a Jewish Enlightenment movement.

The exhibition of the same name tells of the struggle of many great thinkers.

Marking the event, Professor Shmuel Feiner's recently published translation of Haskala events from Hebrew will be presented to book editors.

Haskala runs at the Museum from September 22nd near the best hotels in Berlin.

An exhibition entitled Totally Manoli? No Problem! runs alongside this event, about Jewish entrepreneurs in the German cigarette industry.

It tells how brands, Manoli, Problem and Massary, were marketed during the First World War and how they were taken over by the Nazis in the Second World War.

The Jewish Museum was created after the community called for a special place to recognise 300 years of ancestry in the city in 1971.

It eventually opened 20 years later and this month celebrates the first birthday of a special Glass Hall extension.

Architect Daniel Libeskind designed the 500 capacity hall for workshops, concerts and theatre.

Admission to the Jewish Museum is €5 (£4.05) for adults and €2.50 for children with young people under six free.

The Museum will be closed on September 30th, October 1st and 9th and November 15th for religious festivals and an understanding and tolerance ceremony.