Multi-day Baltic tours.

All five countries in one grand arc: Kraków, Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Helsinki, and a Lapland finale under the aurora.

Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn in eleven private days: 4★ old-town hotels, a private car for every transfer, and a half-day walk with a local guide in each capital.

The three Baltic states in one circuit: Vilnius and a balloon, the Curonian dunes, an after-hours palace, Riga, the Gauja, Tallinn and the islands.

The former KGB headquarters in three capitals, Grūtas Park's fallen statues, Karosta's closed naval city, and the Song Festival Grounds where the story ends.

Vilnius, once the Jerusalem of the North, to Kraków's Kazimierz, with a specialist historian throughout. Paneriai, the Ninth Fort, a full half-day at POLIN, and an unhurried day at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Three festive capitals in one week: the Cathedral Square tree in Vilnius, the Riga market where the first Christmas tree is said to have stood, and Tallinn's medieval Town Hall Square, with mulled wine at every stop.

The solstice, kept the old way: white nights in the countryside, a wreath-weaving day, and Jāņi eve in a Latvian manor village, with Līgo songs and a bonfire held until the 4:30 sunrise.

Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn on scheduled trains and coaches, with the seats booked and the luggage moved. Three UNESCO old towns and nothing to park.

Vilnius to Tallinn with your own keys. The car, the hotels, the ferry slots and a route book that knows which turn you will miss.

Baroque Vilnius, a sunrise balloon, the island castle at Trakai, and two slow days on the moving dunes of the Curonian Spit.

The tall city tree below your hotel windows, a day trip to Trakai's island castle over an ice-rimmed lake, and Kaunas, Lithuania's own second capital with its own Christmas market.

The baroque Old Town, Užupis, Trakai's island castle and the old Jewish quarter. Vilnius in three unhurried days.

A UNESCO sand-dune peninsula, fishing villages, and amber on the morning tide. Four days at the pace of the wind.

Inside the Ignalina nuclear plant: the RBMK reactor that stood in for Chernobyl on screen. Four days, and one of the most extraordinary industrial visits in Europe.

Eight days down the dunes and the delta under your own power. We book the beds, move the bags and draw the route; you ride it at whatever pace the morning suggests.

Baroque Vilnius, modernist Kaunas, a hill of a hundred thousand crosses and a sand spit in the sea. The whole country in a week, with the car only for the middle of it.

The world's densest Art Nouveau city, a belle-époque sea spa, a palace opened after hours, and the wide waterfall at Kuldīga.

The market where the first Christmas tree is said to have stood, a real ride on Sigulda's public bobsled track, and a quieter second market in Cēsis: five private days in one festive capital.

Art Nouveau by day, pine-forest beach by afternoon. Riga and its belle-époque seaside suburb in three days.

Mark Rothko's birthplace, the Latgale lakes, Aglona Basilica and the Versailles of the north. Five days across the eastern half of Latvia.

Four private days in eastern Latvia: Rothko's Daugavpils, the Old Believers, Aglona Basilica, Lake Rāzna and a morning at a Latgalian potter's wheel.

More than half the country is forest, it holds the densest wolf population in the EU, and it sits on one of Europe's great migration corridors. A week at the pace of an actual naturalist.

Ninety-six kilometres of waymarked coast from the wooden villas of Jūrmala to Cape Kolka, where two seas visibly collide. Day packs only; the bags go ahead.

Out of Riga and back to it: the Gauja valley, Cape Kolka where two seas meet, a Soviet naval port, and Rundāle before the coaches arrive.

Hanseatic Tallinn from the wall up, a dawn bog-shoe walk, a smoke-sauna initiation, and two nights in Kuressaare on Saaremaa.

Tallinn's Town Hall Square Christmas market, regularly voted the finest in Europe, plus a day in Tartu, Estonia's university town, and a winter bog walk with a traditional smoke sauna.

The Hanseatic merchant city, told from the wall inward. Guild halls, almshouses and the marzipan kitchen.

Tallinn's Old Town under snow, a snowshoe walk across Viru bog, and two nights at a manor in Lahemaa National Park. Five private days with your own driver-guide.

A UNESCO smoke sauna ceremony at Mooska, the Kingdom of Setomaa, and the Old Believers' onion villages on Lake Peipus. Five days across Estonia's deep south.

Hiiumaa, Saaremaa and Muhu with every ferry slot booked. The emptiest roads in the Baltics, with Kuressaare as the base on Saaremaa.

The four cities that explain Poland: rebuilt Warsaw, royal Kraków, a salt cathedral, Wrocław's islands and dwarfs, and the Hanseatic coast at Gdańsk.

Three Polish cities in the cold months: Warsaw under lights, Kraków's Main Square market beneath St Mary's, and Wrocław, where winter is at its most theatrical.

The short version of Poland: royal Kraków, a dinner in the Wieliczka salt cathedral, and a capital that rebuilt itself from paintings.

Gdańsk, the largest brick castle on earth, two thousand lakes and a capital rebuilt from paintings. The half of Poland the Kraków trips never reach.