A wooden pier, a Hanseatic front, and a sand spit
Almond blossom among Greek temples
Midnight mass, a hundred cribs, empty ruins
The world's largest winter carnival, at minus twenty
The market that every other Christkindlmarkt copies
Sixty brotherhoods and a procession all night
Christmas market, torchlight procession, street party
Via Crucis at the Colosseum, then Umbrian quiet
Azaleas out, humidity not yet arrived
Roman walls, island ferries, swimming off rocks
Nativity scenes, chestnuts, and no real winter
Empty ancient sites, and a warm October sea
Rebuilt old town, Chopin and Uprising history
Danish harbor towns, reefs and park beaches
Walled medieval capital on the Baltic
Fortress heritage, volcano trails and quiet beaches
Roman ruins, gilded domes and a mountain above
First European city in the Americas
Walled colonial capital, criollo food and bars
Baroque, Candomblé and drums above the bay
Seven medieval towns north-east of Moscow
Colonial capital at 2,850 metres
White City to the Colca canyon rim
Asunción to the Jesuit-Guaraní mission ruins
Kremlin, metro palaces and riverside parks
Four Volga cities from Kazan to Volgograd
Colonial old town, the Malecón and live music
Collieries, blast furnaces and gasometers of the Ruhr
Winter league ballparks across four Dominican cities
Walled colonial city, forts and Caribbean beaches
Gold-rush towns of the Estrada Real
Colonial quarter, gold museum and Monserrate ridge
Jesuit blocks, beer villages and mountain roads
Medieval walls, a Gothic minster, Viking history
Ardennes citadels, river towns and wartime history
Frescoed basilicas and truffle country in Italy's green heart
Byzantine churches, buzzing markets and waterfront tavernas.
Half-timbered canals, a Gothic cathedral, Alsatian cuisine
Moorish palaces and flamenco in Andalusia's capital.
Baroque city into sandstone cliffs along the Elbe
Mozart's city below an Alpine fortress
Wooden churches and painted monasteries
Baroque cities, medieval bridges and wild northern peaks
Hanseatic ports, a giant brick castle, and gingerbread streets
Norse history and wild northern isles
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
Pizza, catacombs and Vesuvius views
Underground wine cellars and cave monasteries
Bouchons, Roman ruins and Renaissance traboules
Baroque capital, island castle, Baltic dunes
Baltic beaches, castle ruins and river-carved valley
Roman cities and fortress towns of Languedoc
Royal castle, grand square and Kazimierz
Royal Krakow to the High Tatra peaks
Monastic ruins, medieval towns and the Rock of Cashel
Amber-lined lanes, Gothic spires and a storied Baltic port
Imperial castles, smoked beer and baroque courts
Flemish masters, canals and medieval towns
Conquistador towns and Roman ruins
Italy's richest food region, city by city
Baroque Dresden reborn on the Elbe
Prehistoric caves and clifftop villages of the Dordogne
Copenhagen to Skagen through Denmark's design towns
Venetian harbours, Minoan palaces, mountain gorges
Honey-stone villages and dreaming spires
Fairy-tale canals and medieval architecture
Castles, cathedrals, and Small Carpathian wine country
Ottoman bridges, dervish tekkes and turquoise Herzegovina rivers
Grand spa colonnades and the fairytale bend of Cesky Krumlov
Castles, cliffs and coastline from Cardiff to Conwy
Empty calli, Roman opera, and then nothing
A walled capital of knights, harbours and Baroque gold.
Classical ruins and olive-oil villages down the Aegean coast.
Madrid plus four walled Castilian cities
Alpine trails, Gothic altars and a giant ruined castle
Nabataean tombs, desert dunes and a Red Sea old town
Ancient ruins, baroque squares, long lunches
Cathedrals, castles and wine from the Rhine to Alsace
Gdańsk to Kraków, Poland's history in four cities
Blue-tiled mosques, desert wind-catchers and ancient Persepolis
Ancient theatres, oracles and clifftop monasteries
Atlantic capital of music, markets and history
Pilsner roots to Moravian squares
Four capitals, one easy rail loop
Painted monasteries, mountain peaks, Black Sea coast
Cold War history meets underground club culture
Four Baltic old towns, one route
Cliffside monasteries, cave wineries and a highland lake
Bunker clubs, live rooms, fish market at dawn
Thundering falls, wild herds, ancient stone ruins
Colonial river ports, mangroves and kora music across two nations
Desert pyramids, royal tombs and a cloud-forest fortress.
Canal locks, colonial forts, cloud-forest coffee and Pacific surf
Colonial capital to dune islands and reefs
World-class ceviche meets colonial Lima on Pacific clifftops
Citadels, a Byzantine ghost city, a rock in the sea
Marble mausoleums, hilltop forts, and dawn on the ghats
Goethe, Bach and Dresden's rebuilt Baroque splendor
Hanseatic brick Gothic towns and Baltic beaches
Renaissance châteaux along a slow river
Lakes, fells, dales and a walled city
Castle rock, cobbled closes and whisky bars
Terracotta Army to Kashgar's bazaars across the Silk Road
Aurora skies, gold rush history, and Yukon wilderness road trip
Stilt villages, royal palaces and the roots of Vodun
Caspian modernism, ancient rock art and silk-road caravanserais
Ancient ruins by day, rooftop bars by night.
Buenos Aires to the falls along the Paraná
Roman ruins, the M'zab valley, and deep Sahara
Mountains to Ottoman towns to turquoise coves
Glaciers, totem poles and gold-rush ports by ferry
Turquoise domes along the old Silk Road
Aegean ruins and turquoise harbors from Izmir to Antalya
Medinas, Sahara dunes and Mediterranean beaches
Convict history and alpine wilderness loop
Eight stages of the French Way to Santiago
Temples, tombs and coastlines beyond the capital
Dravidian temple towers to India's southern tip
Greek temples, baroque towns and Etna's clifftop views
Saxon citadels, castles and Carpathian scenery
Forts, palaces and desert bazaars
Castles, cobblestones and cheap beer
Coastal forts, desert camps and mountain oases
D-Day beaches, a tidal abbey and corsair towns
Medinas, blue alleys and Gibraltar views across northern Morocco
Ger camps, ancient ruins and Gobi dunes
Cenotes, ruins and lagoon towns on one loop
Oaxacan mole, Chiapas highlands and Maya ruins at Palenque
Royal landmarks, world museums and buzzing markets
Monastery towns and Angkor's temples along the Mekong
Petra's canyons and a night in the desert
Colonial towns, Mayan ruins and a Caribbean reef island
Slave-castle history and Ashanti craft towns
Walled medieval towns and Neuschwanstein's castle
Castles, monasteries and rock-hewn churches of the north
Divided-city history, Venetian walls and Aphrodite's coast
Cuba end to end: classic cars, cigars and colonial plazas
Waterfalls, Roman ruins and island-hopping ferries
Great Wall to the Bund: warriors, pandas and karst rivers
Three countries between two seas
Nine cities, six countries, one bus route
