A singing Christmas tree and a Baroque abbey
A small high range, on two countries' border
Cheaper skiing, in a range nobody queues for
Britain's largest area of high ground, in snow
Advent markets with a coffee house between each
Masks, high water, and a mostly empty city
Three Baltic capitals, three claims to the first tree
Three resorts, and the trains between them
A hotel built from river ice, every winter
A wooden pier, a Hanseatic front, and a sand spit
Lake steamers, fell walks, and sudden rain
High meadows, mountain huts, and dumplings
Crater lakes, and food cooked in the ground
Cliff coves, a lagoon, and warm water
Cliff villages, Baroque stone, clear water
An artists' bay, a food harbour, a coast path
The Tuscan hills while they are still green
Long light, no midges, empty roads
Terraced vineyards, budding, and a slow train
The coast path open, the crowds not yet arrived
Provence before the lavender and the crowds
Gorges open, hills in flower, sea still cold
Two alpine lakes and a very small capital
Almond blossom among Greek temples
Turning birch, and distilleries at full run
White sand, clear water, and a Catalan town
Where Silent Night was first sung, in 1818
Midnight mass, a hundred cribs, empty ruins
Two Advent capitals, and Germany's oldest market town
White truffles, Barolo, and autumn fog
Blossom, long evenings, no summer queues
Midnight candles, red eggs, wooden churches
The Wiesn, a hill monastery, and Franconia
The market that every other Christkindlmarkt copies
Two months without a sunset
Polar night, Sámi country, and king crab
A maypole, pickled herring, and no darkness
Good Friday statues, then a running Risen Christ
A flower festival, and levadas through laurel forest
Blossom, parks and the Chelsea Flower Show
Santa at the Arctic Circle, then real darkness
Nativity cribs shaped like the city's own towers
Seven million bulbs, open eight weeks a year
Four hours of daylight, and ice caves
A thermal lake you swim in through the frost
Sixty brotherhoods and a procession all night
Barefoot hooded penitents, in the Minho
Three cities, and a julbord table in each
Pebble beaches, modern art, and traffic
Mont Blanc, groomed pistes, and a lake at the end
Public saunas, and a hole cut in the ice
Opera in a castle, and sauna on the shore
The month the population doubles
Christmas market, torchlight procession, street party
Painted-egg markets, then apricot blossom
A living Passion play, then pintxos
A procession that lasts twenty-four hours
Via Crucis at the Colosseum, then Umbrian quiet
Blessed baskets, mystery plays, and Wet Monday
Midnight fireworks, roast lamb, smashed pots
Grapes still trodden by foot, in September
Four valleys, one circuit, Italian mountain food
Four islands, one ferry line, one summer
Roman walls, island ferries, swimming off rocks
The oldest Christmas market in France, then the villages
Georgian markets, stone villages and carol services
Nativity scenes, chestnuts, and no real winter
Light shows, port lodges and a river tree
Tivoli under half a million lights
Thermal baths, cellar rows, and noble rot
Advent market by day, outdoor hot pool by night
Flemish squares, ice rinks and winter beer
Turning beech above dark fir, and a spa town
A fantasy castle, above a frozen lake
The beer gardens reopen under the chestnuts
Three alpine lakes, an hour from Munich
The bulls, then the beach
The harvest, new oil, and empty hills
Empty ancient sites, and a warm October sea
Châteaux without the coaches, and game on the menu
Gold larch under limestone, and a green river
A ski capital, the Arlberg, and a famous downhill
Cold clear lakes, and an emperor's spa town
Thrones, patios and sherry, without the crush
Empty plains, walled hill towns, cheap good wine
Rebuilt old town, Chopin and Uprising history
Gothic old town, modernista markets, city beaches
Baroque capital of porticoes, cafes and chocolate
Rail from Red Square to Lake Baikal
Walled medieval capital on the Baltic
Matterhorn, 4 Vallées and year-round glacier skiing
Bernabéu, Camp Nou, the Seville derby, San Mamés
Roman ruins, gilded domes and a mountain above
Whitewater on the Soča below the Julian Alps
Open rota links from Fife to Sutherland
Hermitage, palaces and Neva embankments
Onega wooden churches and Ladoga marble
Seven medieval towns north-east of Moscow
Europe's highest summit and the Caucasus ski valleys
Down the Danube arms to the Black Sea
Old town, Art Nouveau streets and market hangars
High passes and refuges along the border crest
Ericeira reefs to Nazare giants to Sagres
Holmenkollen, the Olympic town and the Sjusjøen trails
Four canal cities linked by flat cycle paths
Kremlin, metro palaces and riverside parks
Design, art and Gothic Milan in one city
Tramuntana passes from a spring training base
Moorish fortress, Picasso museums, city beaches
Lord's, Wembley, Twickenham and the league grounds
Four Volga cities from Kazan to Volgograd
A 40 km piste circuit around the Sella massif
Ferrari, Maserati and the circuits at Imola and Monza
Sella Ronda passes from Bolzano to Cortina
Gran Sasso peaks to the Adriatic shore
Four Atlantic links courses from Clare to Kerry
Baroque wine towns, Tokaj cellars, the puszta
Neoclassical center, Finnish design, island fortress
Athens charter base to the Saronic islands
Collieries, blast furnaces and gasometers of the Ruhr
Nordschleife laps, Eifel towns, Moselle wine
Four linked resorts on one Three Valleys pass
Chalk cellars, vineyard slopes and timbered Troyes
Four valley bases for the classic Tour de France climbs
Old Trafford, Anfield, Elland Road, St James' Park
Charter route through the Kornati and Telašćica archipelagos
Four trade-wind coasts across four islands
Belle Époque boulevards, communist colossus, old-town bars
Four Arlberg villages on one linked lift network
Old town, lake swims and design shopping
Cafes, cobblestones and Zagreb's off-beat museums
Medieval walls, a Gothic minster, Viking history
Ardennes citadels, river towns and wartime history
Car-free villages, the Matterhorn and the Aletsch Glacier
Frescoed basilicas and truffle country in Italy's green heart
Renaissance art to cypress-lined wine roads
Byzantine churches, buzzing markets and waterfront tavernas.
Italian Switzerland's lakeside villages
Granite islands, oyster villages and Nordic seafood
Graz's old town, Styrian vineyards and a volcano-rock castle
Half-timbered canals, a Gothic cathedral, Alsatian cuisine
Mountains, castles and a fantasy village
Moorish palaces and flamenco in Andalusia's capital.
Scotland's ultimate wild coastal road trip
Baroque city into sandstone cliffs along the Elbe
Mozart's city below an Alpine fortress
Cube houses, market halls and daring modern skyline
Wooden churches and painted monasteries
Trulli, whitewashed towns and cave dwellings across Italy's heel
Baroque cities, medieval bridges and wild northern peaks
Tiled streets, port wine cellars, and a legendary bookshop
Hanseatic ports, a giant brick castle, and gingerbread streets
Barolo cellars, Alba truffles and Turin's cafes
Gritstone edges and limestone dales of the White Peak
Norway's classic railway journey to the fjords
Norse history and wild northern isles
Fjords, wildlife and the Arctic coast of Norway
Roman forts, clifftop castles and a tide-locked island
Basalt coastline, rope bridges and walled-city history
Byzantine monasteries and wild mountain villages
Ottoman cities, ancient lakes, alpine peaks
Riviera glamour meets old-town market life
Pizza, catacombs and Vesuvius views
Royal squares, beer gardens and Alpine day trips
Riesling vineyards, riverside castles and Roman Trier
Bay of Kotor to Durmitor's peaks
Underground wine cellars and cave monasteries
Sailing lakes and fortress towns in Poland's lake district
Mountain villages, hidden coves, ancient stone towns
Bouchons, Roman ruins and Renaissance traboules
Dragon bridges and riverside cafes in Slovenia's green capital
Baroque capital, island castle, Baltic dunes
Baltic beaches, castle ruins and river-carved valley
Roman cities and fortress towns of Languedoc
Vineyard terraces and lakeside towns around Lac Leman
Balaton's shores and Hungary's volcanic wine hills
Royal castle, grand square and Kazimierz
Royal Krakow to the High Tatra peaks
Two wild Atlantic peninsulas by car
Monastic ruins, medieval towns and the Rock of Cashel
Venetian towns and turquoise Ionian bays
Remote fjords, thunderous falls, and volcanic craters
Steam trains, timbered towns and witches' peaks
Austria's highest road, glacier peaks to lake beaches
Victorian architecture, Mackintosh design and live music
Qvevri wine country and the Caucasus peaks
Amber-lined lanes, Gothic spires and a storied Baltic port
Rías, seafood and Albariño wine country
Surf, Basque villages and Pyrenean foothills
Alpine lakes, Baroque towns and Mont Blanc peaks
Imperial castles, smoked beer and baroque courts
Renaissance art and Tuscan flavors in one walkable city
Flemish masters, canals and medieval towns
Saimaa lakes, lakeside saunas and a medieval island castle
Conquistador towns and Roman ruins
Medieval capital, windmill islands, and a Baltic beach resort
Alpine lakes, Romansh villages and Switzerland's only national park
Italy's richest food region, city by city
Windmills, tulip fields and a car-free canal village
Georgian squares, trad pubs and literary history
Baroque Dresden reborn on the Elbe
Prehistoric caves and clifftop villages of the Dordogne
Copenhagen to Skagen through Denmark's design towns
Hilltop truffle towns and the Roman arena at Pula
Ferry-hopping the Dalmatian islands
Venetian harbours, Minoan palaces, mountain gorges
Honey-stone villages and dreaming spires
Medieval Girona, Dalí's coast and Mediterranean coves
Surf beaches, cliffs and a tidal castle in Cornwall
Genoa's old port to Cinque Terre's cliffside villages
University city to Portugal's highest mountains
Grand-Place gilding, art nouveau and chocolate
Fairy-tale canals and medieval architecture
Corsair ramparts, oysters and granite coastline
Castles, cathedrals, and Small Carpathian wine country
Ottoman bridges, dervish tekkes and turquoise Herzegovina rivers
Grand cru châteaux, oyster bays, and Europe's tallest dune.
Porticoes, towers and Italy's best food
Grand spa colonnades and the fairytale bend of Cesky Krumlov
Spa towns, cuckoo clocks and forested valleys
Guggenheim, pintxos and Basque design
Waterfalls, cogwheel trains, and car-free villages below the Jungfrau
Fairytale castles and Alpine villages
Guggenheim, pintxos bars and Rioja wine towns
Cider, coastline and limestone peaks in Green Spain.
Art, diamonds, and daring fashion in one Flemish city
Whitewashed pueblos, sherry bodegas and the Cadiz coast
Storybook villages and cellar-door tastings on the wine route
Volcanic island-hopping off Sicily's coast
Castles, cliffs and coastline from Cardiff to Conwy
Lochs, whisky and island crags across the Scottish Highlands
Canals, art and beer, city to city by rail
Empty calli, Roman opera, and then nothing
Glacier and Bernina Express panoramas across the Swiss Alps
Alpine lakes and a walkable green capital
Caldera, then mountains, then nothing at all
Cathedrals, castles and wine from the Rhine to Alsace
Terraces, quintas and a train that follows the river
Gdańsk to Kraków, Poland's history in four cities
Northern lights in winter, granite peaks in summer
Ancient theatres, oracles and clifftop monasteries
Ten iconic capitals, one legendary rail adventure across Europe.
Northern lights above the Arctic Circle
Four capitals, one easy rail loop
Four Baltic old towns, one route
Crater lakes, whales and volcanic wine islands
Vermút at eight, churros at six
Street drinking, then silence for the fado
Bunker clubs, live rooms, fish market at dawn
Techno, beer gardens and trains that run all night
Splavovi in summer, courtyards in winter
Vermouth from the barrel, warehouses until dawn
Cliff villages, gardens over the sea, boats instead of roads
Eight stages of the French Way to Santiago
Pizza, cave towns and trulli through Italy's deep south
Greek temples, baroque towns and Etna's clifftop views
Saxon citadels, castles and Carpathian scenery
Provence hill towns to French Riviera coast
Castles, cobblestones and cheap beer
Iconic landmarks, world-class art and café culture
Pintxos, cider and seafood along the Atlantic coast
D-Day beaches, a tidal abbey and corsair towns
Royal landmarks, world museums and buzzing markets
Cliffs, coastal pubs and peninsula roads along Ireland's west coast
Walled medieval towns and Neuschwanstein's castle
Divided-city history, Venetian walls and Aphrodite's coast
Waterfalls, Roman ruins and island-hopping ferries
Design capitals by train across two countries
Nine cities, six countries, one bus route
Alpine towns, cable cars and world-class skiing
Hill towns to golden coastal cliffs
