Recommendations for where to go in Europe

I lived and worked in the Baltics for a while including the winter of 1997. From August until March it's liable to snow and to be very chilly. There was something magical about the half light and 2' of snow on the beach. The pastel colours are why you'd go in winter and the cafe/bar life.

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Thank you all. Please, keep the great ideas coming. Since my wife and I are in Jacksonville, FL and really enjoying being away from Maryland (we just moved), I think we'll stick to the southern part of Europe and aim for Spain or Italy as some have suggested. But even the wet, damp, dreariness of some of the other places sounds like it would be fun to photograph.