5 articles about Christmas, with ideas and advice for choosing where to go and planning the trip.
· Matt
Skip the airport and take the Eurostar to the Christmas markets. Here are the best markets within a day's train ride of London, with typical journey times, where to change, and how to make it work.
· Matt
Most Lapland trips from the UK go to one of three places. Here's how Rovaniemi, Levi and Saariselkä compare for meeting Santa, snow, northern lights and getting there, so you can pick the right one.
· Matt
Europe has thousands of Christmas markets, but only a handful are worth a flight or a train ride on their own. Here are the best for a two to four-night break, what makes each one different, and when to go.
· Brogan
If you'd rather spend Christmas Day on a beach than by the fire, here's where's warm in late December, from the Canary Islands four hours away to the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, with what the weather is really like.
· Matt
A white Christmas is never guaranteed, but some places come close. Here's where snow is most likely on 25 December, from Lapland and Arctic Norway to high Alpine resorts, and where it's more of a gamble.