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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’re feeling hot hot hot as the temperature soars above a sizzling 30°C in what seems like the most sweltering heatwave in history. But as the summer we’ve all been waiting for makes an appearance, we couldn’t help but daydream of cold, cold snow crunching under foot, frosty snowflakes melting on the palm and that […]
Firecrackers cracked, lanterns were lit and dumplings were shovelled into mouths around the world last night, in celebration of the BIGGEST night in the Chinese calendar. And we got to thinking – where are the best places in the mountains for proper Chinese chow?– spring rolls with crunch, unctuous sauces and crispy duck that pulls apart in the hand? Heads […]
Want to know why there’s no such thing as Blue Monday for skiers and snowboarders? It’s because we have “Bluebird Monday” ! With the mountains at their most skiable around this time of year, January’s definitely not the time for feeling blue. We’re therefore rebranding Blue Monday “Bluebird Monday” (Bluebird: Adjective. A bright sunny day after a night […]
Ski holidays simply wouldn’t exist without mountains, and marking today “International Mountain Day” the world shows its gratitude. Some colleges in America actually cancel classes for excursions to their local peaks, but we think we’ll settle for a catalogue of our top 10 — from world-renowned icons to the personal favourites we’ve seen and skied along the way. Views as far as the goggled eye can see, summits which have […]
We all know how learning to ski or snowboard goes – you spend your first wobbly day or two of the ski holiday within arms length of the cafes, on a nursery slope as steep as… well its almost completely flat. Then you progress a little further from the ski resort up the hill and […]
The inhabitants of Alpe d’Huez are among the most welcoming of any French ski resort. We met a charming young Frenchman who, although lightly toasted, managed to explain in English that he needed to take lots of pictures of our Airstream. I think he was in charge of a shop or cafe but it was […]
