What a week it’s been in the Alps – cracking snow cover from last week’s dumps, low temperatures keeping it cool and glorious blue skies and sunshine over the past couple of days. The sun terraces are buzzing, and the views are nothing short of staggering. It looks like the weekend’s going to be a […]
It’s a cool and snowy start to March in the Alps, and there’s MUCH more to come! The white stuff is due especially thick and fast on Friday evening and Saturday morning in most French resorts, providing oodles of fresh powder for the lucky devils skiing next week. Italy is getting a good dusting, with the Milky Way […]
Snow, sun and oodles more snow to come… The snowfall of the past couple of days has paused to let SNO lovers enjoy the pistes in glorious sunshine today. There’s more snow on the menu over the weekend, with Mother Nature kindly topping up the slopes for anyone heading to the alps for half term. […]
It’s Chinese New Year – the Universe is speaking to us again! While 2015’s Chinese New Year led us to Zermatt, this time round it’s the Year of the Monkey – and it’s all about Chamonix. 8 reasons why you must ski Chamonix if you were born in the year of the monkey, or if […]
Mother Nature’s looking kindly on SNO lovers at the moment, and today the Alps have seen a delicious dusting of the white stuff. Most are likely to get more of the same tomorrow, with forecasts for Friday and Saturday seeing the clouds give way to some glorious sunshine – before they return with more snow […]
Put down the prune juice and step away from the spirulina, it’s National Hot Chocolate Day! Everyone’s favourite calorific beverage, a good hot chocolate, is so many things: welcome warmth on a cold a day on the mountain, the best bribe for well-behaved skiing sprogs or, injected with a daring dash of Chartreuse, a spot of Dutch courage for that notorious black run. […]
It’s Burns Night this evening, but it’s also another Gaelic themed national day … While the likes of Le Frog in Serre Chevalier are preparing their Rabbie celebrations (Dee planned a Burns supper with music, haggis, neeps and tatties), others are raising their glasses to Irish Coffee Day. Irish Coffee came to be 74 years ago, […]
The one that makes skiing baaaaaaaarilliant… The one you’d want to follow in a white-out… …if you’re not already following this yellow fellow… The one that reminds us how much we love carbs on ski holidays… The science lesson on the slopes (and his friend, the quiffy carrot?)… The […]
Our old friend the cable car: a fundamental part of any ski holiday – without them our glorious mountains would be a hell of a lot harder to reach, and there’d be no chance of a cheeky mid-ski Toblerone – which is probably why someone’s decided to dedicate an entire day to them. Including some […]
It’s Russian Christmas today, and it’s turning out to be a rather white one. There have been heavy dumps of white stuff in certain parts of the Alps this week, with the high French resorts, Austria’s Arlberg region and some ski areas in Switzerland being very much in the Snow God’s favour. Avalanche risk is […]
