Fjord fever

Sail Norway’s dramatic fjords high above the Arctic Circle and learn about the night sky on this small-ship cruise

Aer Lingus has flights to Belfast from 20 UK cities, including Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester and London. aerlingus.com For a no-fly option, Stena Line operates daily car ferry sailings from Cairnryan

Travelling to Europe, we often fly and miss out on the pleasure of a European road trip, so for my holiday in northern Italy, I decided to savour the journey by driving there. There are plenty of ferr

KNOWN AS ‘EUROPE’S RESERVOIR’, SWITZERLAND IS HOME TO MYRIAD LIQUID LANDSCAPES — FROM LIDOS AND ALPINE LAKES TO GLACIER-FED RIVERS AND WATERFALLS

Set against an archipelago of forested isles and the waves of the Baltic Sea, the Finnish capital lives in harmony with nature — locals take artistic inspiration from their wild surrounds and warm up in cedar-lined saunas

Some describe Montenegro’s Kotor as a scaled-down version of Croatia’s Dubrovnik. Yet there’s more to its charms than that. Sandwiched between precipitous mountains and dazzling Adriatic waters, this