So you've met the love of your life online. You've been on a date – maybe starting with a drink and moving on to dinner and a film. One of the next things you might consider, after the romance has been in place for some time, is heading on holiday.

Romantic breaks are a popular option for couples and can be fitted in among working life, for example over a weekend.

Recent research from Glasgow City Marketing Bureau has discovered some of the ingredients to an ideal romantic weekend break.

It would include close to three hours worth of shopping, it seems, as well as almost as much time devoted to extra time in bed daily.

Over eight hours of eating and drinking also play a part, a poll of Brits suggested, as does £260 to spend and four star boutique hotel accommodation.

A romantic pair's first weekend break should apparently happen six months after they become a couple, the research suggests.

Yet five per cent of the sample would happily head away with a partner they'd known for only a day!

A fifth of couples said a romantic weekend away had saved their relationship.

And most said their relationship had been strengthened by a weekend break.

"Everyone needs to be able to switch-off from time to time, rekindle relationships and do the things that you love to do," commented Glasgow City Marketing Bureau's Minty Woolgar.

Past Irwin Mitchell Solicitors survey research has suggested that spending increased quality time as a pair may be the best way to stop a relationship ending when things aren't going too well.ADNFCR-2867-ID-801718699-ADNFCR

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