Norway

Norway is a sort of European Canada – it’s all about the outdoors and doing fun stuff in it, and we think it’s great. So if you’re the type who might like to ski by boat, hurtle down a bobsleigh track or take a snowmobile safari in search of polar bears, you’ve come to the right place. Original Travel has trips to the fjords of western Norway, the Arctic north, the island archipelago of Svalbard and the Olympic ski resort of Lillehammer.

We have exclusive use of the Olympic track in Lillehammer - the venue for the 1994 Winter Games. Don a crash helmet, climb aboard a four-man bobsleigh (steered by a professional pilot-cum-brakeman) and off you go, rattling down the track on knife-edge blades at speeds of up to 80mph and generating forces of 5G around the fastest bends. Like all adrenalin sports it’s scary, but as soon as you’ve done it once you’ll want to do it again.

Speaking of scary, the polar bears of Svalbard (a remote archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, north of Norway) are a highlight of any visit, but we don’t recommend getting too close. We do, however, recommend dog-sledding across Spitsbergen, the main island, through frozen landscapes of glaciers, mountains and fjords full of blue icebergs – think the Scottish Highlands during an Ice Age.