Røros is a UNESCO-listed Norwegian copper-mining town of about 2,000 wooden houses. Learn its history, the February Rørosmartnan market, what to do and how to get there.
Odense is Denmark's third-largest city, Hans Christian Andersen's birthplace and the gateway to Funen. Here is what to see, eat and plan, plus the best day trips.
Norway's stave churches are 800-year-old wooden cathedrals with dragon heads and Viking-age carving. Learn how they were built, why only 28 survive, and which ones to visit.
Kungsleden, the King's Trail, runs roughly 440 km through Swedish Lapland from Abisko to Hemavan. Here is how to hike it: the best sections, mountain huts, the season, and what to pack.
How Iceland's geothermal swimming pools (sundlaugar) work, the shower rules every visitor must follow, and how the Blue Lagoon, Sky Lagoon, and local hot pots compare.
Stockholm is built on fourteen islands where medieval old town, world-class museums, and an underground art gallery all sit within a short ferry ride of each other. Here's the complete guide to Gamla Stan, the Vasa Museum, Djurgården, and beyond.
Nuuk is the Arctic capital of Greenland: a small, modern town of colourful houses beneath Sermitsiaq mountain, with fjord boat trips, whale watching, a superb national museum and no roads out. Here is what to see, when to go and how to get there.
Norway's Hurtigruten coastal express sails 34 ports from Bergen to Kirkenes. Here is its history, the route, when to go for midnight sun or Northern Lights, and practical tips.
Gotland is Sweden's largest island, home to the UNESCO-listed medieval town of Visby, the raukar sea stacks of Fårö and some of the sunniest weather in the country. Here is how to plan a trip.
Bornholm Travel Guide: Denmark’s Sunny Baltic Island of Round Churches, Smokehouses and Castle Ruins
Bornholm is Denmark's granite island in the Baltic, with the largest castle ruin in Northern Europe, four medieval round churches, smokehouse chimneys and some of the sunniest weather in the country. Here is how to plan a visit.
Polar bears, a seed vault built to survive the apocalypse, and a town where cats, burials and unarmed walks are all off the menu. Here is what it is really like to visit Svalbard, Norway's High Arctic archipelago.
Copenhagen packs royal palaces, a 17th-century harbour, a radical commune, and a ski slope on a power plant into a city small enough to see in a long weekend. Here's the complete guide.
