Simon Calder's 12 Destinations For 2012
Where should you go on holiday next year? LBC Travel Expert Simon Calder picks out the best places to visit - and when to go - in 2012.
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January: Norway
Cold, dark, expensive? Yes, but also dazzling bright should the Northern Lights come out to play - as they may do this winter and next in abundance. A new link from Manchester to Bergen makes the nation's most beautiful big city more accessible. Bergen is also the terminus of the Hurtigruten, the state-sponsored coastal ferry that provides a lifeline for the ports and villages that decorate Europe's wildest coast, and bears you smoothly north beyond the Arctic Circle - where, if the gods are willing, the heavens may come alive in a thrilling phosphorescence.
