Hundreds of years ago Northern Europe was the land of the Vikings. Today, it offers one of the highest living standards in the world and more picturesque scenery than you can take in a lifetime.

Northern Europe might be defined roughly to include some or all of the following areas: British Isles, Fennoscandia, the peninsula of Jutland, the Baltic plain that lies to the east and the many islands that lie offshore from mainland Northern Europe and the main European continent. In some cases, Greenland is also included, although it is only politically European, comprising part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and not considered to be geographically in Europe.