BBC Fast Track - Insider Guide (January 2013)
Michelle Jana Chan gives her top travel ideas for the coming weeks including the International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Harbin, China - where by day artists work to create a city of ice and by night visitors can see it spectacularly lit in bright colours.
Europe gets two new capitals of culture - Marseille Provence in France and Kosice in Slovakia and in Amsterdam the Stedelijk Contemporary Art Museum reopens after a nine-year renovation.