Europe

Paris is only the opening act — wine country, the Alps, and two coastlines.

The benchmark for food, history, and beauty.

Ruins in the morning, a swim by noon, taverna until dark.

Food, beaches, and three or four cities that each justify the trip.

The ski and alpine benchmark — every other mountain range is measured against this.

Dubrovnik, the Adriatic coast, ancient cities. Compact and beautiful.

Prague earns the crowds. The rest of the country is the bonus.

Geysers, glaciers, northern lights, hot springs.

The best value city in Western Europe.

The most concentrated mountain scenery in Europe — and you'll pay for it.

London, then the parts most visitors skip — Scotland, Wales, and the coast.

The Alps done properly — skiing, hiking, and Vienna for the culture.

A long weekend in Copenhagen — design, cycling, and new-Nordic food.

Serious cities, river valleys, and the Alps in the south.

Budapest is the best-value great city in Europe.

Rent a car, chase the coast, accept the weather.

Amsterdam, then the cities and coast most visitors never reach.

Fjords, northern lights, midnight sun — utterly unlike anywhere else.

Europe's best-value city break, with the history to match.

Atlantic beaches, excellent food and wine, slow pace.

The most photographed view in Greece — a drowned volcano rim of white villages above a blue caldera.

Highlands, lochs, castles, and whisky. Dramatic, moody landscapes.

Island-strewn cities in summer, aurora and snow in the far north.

Italy’s most glamorous stretch of coast — pastel villages stacked above the sea, lemons, and long lunches.

Canals, beer, and Flemish art, all an easy train ride apart.

Year-round warm weather, volcanic landscapes, easy from Europe.

The winter trip — aurora, huskies, and snow — with saunas the whole year round.

A sun-baked limestone island with more history per square mile than almost anywhere.

A whole country where mountains drop straight into the Adriatic.

Europe’s sunny western edge — Lisbon’s hills, Porto’s port, Algarve cliffs, and the best value in the west.

Italy at its most layered and intense — Greek temples, Baroque towns, street food, and a live volcano.

Alps, coast, and a capital you can cross on foot — all in one small country.

The template for the good life — Renaissance cities, cypress hills, and the best wine roads in Italy.

The cheapest stretch of Mediterranean coast left in Europe — for now.

Green volcanic islands in the mid-Atlantic, half-empty and gloriously weird.

East meets West in one small, absurdly cheap country layered with living history.

A country-sized Greek island — Europe’s oldest civilisation, pink-sand lagoons, and a mountainous wild south.

Dependable Mediterranean warmth, ancient mosaics, and cool mountain wine villages on one easy island.

Extraordinary food, wine, hospitality, mountains, and old cities — all cheap.

A steep, green volcanic island in the Atlantic — spring-like all year and built for walkers.

Far more than package beaches — turquoise coves, a UNESCO mountain range, and one of the Med’s best cities.

The good life, distilled — lavender, hilltop villages, Roman ruins, and rosé under the plane trees.

The most atmospheric, least touristed corner of Europe — at a fraction of the price.

The Mediterranean’s best beaches, wrapped around a wild, ancient interior most visitors never see.

Frescoed monasteries, Roman old towns, and empty mountains at prices Europe forgot.

A mountain range in the sea — France’s wildest island, where the Alps meet Caribbean-clear water.

A medieval old town wired to one of the most digital states on earth.

The Arctic winter fantasy made real — northern lights, huskies, snow, and the original Santa.

Eighteen green, cliff-walled islands in the North Atlantic — grass-roofed hamlets, waterfalls off the edge of the world.

The Arctic at its most overwhelming — city-sized icebergs, silent fjords, and almost no one there.

The Balkans’ best night out — grilled meat, rakija, and river clubs, in Europe’s most underrated capital.