The Ring Road and the Northern Lights.

The fjords and the Lofoten Islands.

A glass igloo in Lapland under the aurora.

Stockholm in summer and the Ice Hotel in winter.

Copenhagen, the food and the bikes.

Budapest and its thermal baths.

Lake Bled and the Julian Alps.

Tbilisi, the Caucasus mountains and the oldest wine in the world.

Monasteries carved into cliffs, with Mount Ararat on the horizon.

Belgrade, where the night starts at midnight and ends on a river barge.

Cliffside fortresses, light pouring into caves and almost no crowds.

Lake Ohrid, one of the oldest lakes in the world.

Baku's skyline, mountains that burn and the Caspian coast.

Waterfalls that fall straight into the sea and villages under the cliffs.

Icebergs the size of buildings and the midnight sun.

Polar bears, glaciers and the northernmost town you can fly to.

Tallinn, a medieval old town that still looks the part.

Riga, with the best Art Nouveau streets in Europe.

Vilnius and its baroque old town, plus the dunes of the Curonian Spit.