Beat the cold weather with our guide to awesome things happening in Split this winter Surrounded by the snow-blanketed Dinaric Alps, Split looks beautiful on a crisp winter day, and it's market ...

Michael Portillo enjoys a journey on the historic line from Sarajevo to Mostar, descending 600 metres through the Dinaric Alps, reflecting on the divisions which tour apart the old Yugoslavia.

Surrounded by the snow-blanketed Dinaric Alps, Split looks gorgeous on a crisp winter day, and it's market stalls, quirky shops and cobbled streets are an enchanting place to go Christmas shopping.