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Destinations told one at a time, each with the trip that goes with it — ready to make your own.
Mountains and passes
Seven passes, lakes at 1,800 metres and villages with decorated façades, in the only Swiss canton with three official languages. A week on a loop from Chur, with a stretch through Italy, from Tirano to the Stelvio Pass.
Mountains and passes
Three mountain roads closed in winter, stave churches and the fjords of western Norway, listed by Unesco. Six days from Oslo to Bergen, from the Jotunheimen plateau to the inner reaches of the Sognefjord.
Wide open spaces
Five national parks, from the lowest point in North America to the giant sequoias. A two-week loop from Los Angeles, through the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite.
Wide open spaces
In northern Montenegro, the Durmitor massif strings together glacial lakes, high passes and some of the deepest canyons in Europe. This trip goes round it in five days from Podgorica, from Ostrog Monastery to the Tara bridge.
Mountains and passes
The Transalpina is the highest road in Romania: it crosses the Carpathians at 2,145 metres, at the Urdele Pass. This four-day trip follows it from Oltenia to the citadels of Transylvania.
Mountains and passes
Six days from Budapest to Tokaj, by way of the Danube Bend, the Mátra Mountains and Eger. Royal citadels, a listed village, cellars dug into the rock and the sweet wines of Tokaj.
Wide open spaces
Waterfalls by the roadside, orchards above the water and a glacier above the orchards. Six days on a loop from Bergen, around the second-longest fjord in Norway.
Mountains and passes
Ticino is the Switzerland south of the Alps: people speak Italian there and palm trees grow on the lakeshores. This trip starts in Lugano and takes in Bellinzona, Locarno and the Verzasca and Maggia valleys.
Wide open spaces
Stone villages above the Vikos Gorge, arched bridges, the Pindus, then the Ionian Sea. A six-day loop from Ioannina, in north-west Greece.
Mountains and passes
South of Dublin, the Wicklow Mountains bring together great estates, peat moorland and valleys carved by glaciers. Three days on a loop from Dublin, by the Military Road, Lough Tay and St Kevin’s valley.
Mountains and passes
In the north of Romania, two mountain regions keep wooden churches and monasteries with frescoes on their outside walls. This trip crosses them in eight days, from Baia Mare to the Bicaz Gorge and Lacul Roșu.
Coast and islands
Pelion is a forested mountain that sits between a calm gulf and the Aegean Sea. This trip takes five days to loop around it from Volos, through its stone villages, its pebble coves and its winding roads.