Norway
Oslo is a fjord capital reborn — a waterfront of museums, opera, and a forest on the metro.
Oslo is Norway's redesigned capital — a waterfront of museums, the opera house you can walk on, and a forest (Nordmarka) reachable by metro. It's expensive, green, and quiet; see the Viking ships, the Munch museum, and the new Munch. Summer for the fjord; winter for the ski routes.
How long
2–3 days
Currency
Norwegian krone (NOK). Cards near-universal.
Language
Norwegian. English universal.
Getting around
Metro, ferries, and walking.
Budget range
NOK 1,200–2,200 per person per day at mid-range. Oslo is pricey.
Croatia
Split is a Roman emperor's retirement palace — Diocletian's, still lived in, with the sea on one side and ferries to the islands on the other.
Finland
Helsinki is a Nordic capital by the Baltic — design, saunas, and a sea-archipelago on the doorstep.
France
Bordeaux is wine country in a city — a UNESCO riverfront of 18th-century stone and the world's wine capital.
Italy
Naples is Italy raw and real — pizza where it was invented, a castle over the bay, and Pompeii an hour away.
Greece
Thessaloniki is Greece's second city — Byzantine churches, a waterfront, and the best food in the country, Athenians say.
Spain
Bilbao is the Basque industrial city reborn by a Guggenheim — old and new in one rebuilt river town.
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