Northern Iceland used to play second fiddle to the Golden Circle around Reykjavík – but not any more. After Lonely…

How Val Thorens, Europe’s highest ski resort, became one of the world’s least likely gourmet destinations (First published in N…

Quite a while ago, in a place quite far north in Sweden, twenty-something FX artist David Sandberg quit his job,…

It’s got record-breaking truffles, great local wines and more olive oil producers than any region in the world bar Tuscany.…

The return of the LP has brought the good times back to Haarlem, the Netherlands, where the world’s biggest vinyl…

Mikkel Borg Bjergsø started home brewing as a science experiment – then became the original “gypsy brewer” and a craft…

In the late ’70s and early ’80s, a hardy group of locals and an American backpacker turned Ericeira, just north…

Tourism may be poised to overtake fishing as the main industry in Lofoten – but it’s still fishing that forms…

With coral reefs around the world threatened by global warming, the pioneering XL Catlin Seaview Survey is creating a Google…

Neon lighting may have been invented in France and popularised in Jazz-era America – but it reached its peak in…

Facebook’s data centre in Luleå, northern Sweden, claims to be the greenest on the planet. It’s already created a local…

This piano represents the first major redesign of the instrument in over a century. Its Hungarian creator has spent more…

The town of Miami Beach was created a century ago. Then the fun really started (First published in N by…

With the Michelin judges finally going beyond five Scandinavian cities, why some truly astonishing restaurants should soon be getting the…

With more people, more tourists, more money and more big ideas, the capital of the Arctic is booming. We head…

Until recently, Stranda didn’t have the infrastructure to match the off-piste skiing and stunning fjord views. Now that’s changed, could…

When Jussi Eiramo stopped his car here in 1973, Kakslauttanen consisted of two reindeer meat storage units. Over 40 years,…

Canadian Paul Mathews is the world’s pre-eminent ski resort designer, having created more than 400 of them around the world.…

The Portuguese island of Madeira has been more readily associated with cruise ships and all-inclusive resorts. But with its consistent…

Europe’s largest pinball museum in Budapest is a fascinating primer on the game’s surprisingly colourful history – involving police raids,…

Sverker Johansson has created more than three million Wikipedia articles, around one tenth of the entire content of the site.…