Bearing in mind this is my first tes game, i feel there are too many quests are underground and not enough on the land. It gets tedious clearing dungeon after dungeon. It would be nice if ther was more variety as i cannot face another dungeon after i have just cleared one without a long break.

Your views?

Take a break between quests.

The usual purpose of the quests is an excuse to direct you toward a dungeon, because they're generally interesting.

Indeed, as Scow2 says, just take a break, go exploring above ground...gather ingredients, mine for ore, have fun.

Join the dark brotherhood, few quests are dungeon crawls and you meet many people once.