{"id":1542,"date":"2015-01-19T19:12:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2015-03-09T10:11:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:11:48","slug":"bluebird-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/bluebird-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Blue Monday is the BEST Day of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to know why there\u2019s no such thing as Blue Monday<\/strong> for skiers and snowboarders?<\/p>\n

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It’s because we have “Bluebird Monday<\/strong>” !<\/p>\n

\"Alpe<\/a>

\u00a9 Alpe d’Huez – AKA ‘Ile au Soleil’ or Island of the Sun has mainly south-facing slopes & so much sunshine.<\/p><\/div>\n

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With the mountains at their most skiable around this time of year,\u00a0January’s definitely not the time\u00a0for\u00a0feeling blue.\u00a0We\u2019re therefore rebranding Blue Monday\u00a0“Bluebird Monday” (Bluebird: Adjective.<\/em> A bright sunny day after a night of amazing snowfall) with our\u00a010 best sunny ski resorts. Even if you’re stuck at home today, cheer yourself up with a scroll through\u00a0these glorious pictures (and maybe a March <\/a>or April <\/a>holiday\u2026).<\/p>\n

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\"ENGADIN

ENGADIN St. Moritz Tourism<\/p><\/div>\n

You\u2019ll need your (preferably\u00a0designer) shades in St Moritz<\/a>, where the sun shines an average 322 days a year.<\/p>\n

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\"OT

Les 2 Alpes Tourism & Bruno Longo<\/p><\/div>\n

Les 2 Alpes <\/a>is especially good for sun-filled skiing\u00a0in August (this is one of only a few resorts where you can still ski at summertime!).<\/p>\n

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\"Grandvalira

Grandvalira Tourism<\/p><\/div>\n

Grandvalira (home\u00a0to Pas de la Casa<\/a> and Soldeu<\/a>)\u00a0is, hands down, the sunniest place to ski in Europe.<\/p>\n

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\"Villars\"

Villars Tourism<\/p><\/div>\n

Climb up to the sundrenched terraces in the Vaud Alps above Villars <\/a>for a spot of ski holiday sunbathing.<\/p>\n

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\"Cervinia

Cervinia Tourism<\/p><\/div>\n

Cervinia <\/a>\u2013 the sun just won\u2019t stop kissing the highest resort in the Aosta valley.<\/p>\n

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\"K

Nendaz tourism & K Polzer<\/p><\/div>\n

Nendaz<\/a>‘s sunshine often sees it compared to the French Riviera…<\/p>\n

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\"Markus

Kronplatz Tourism & Markus Eder<\/p><\/div>\n

In previous seasons (and hopefully they’ll carry on this year) you’ve been able to take advantage on Kronplatz<\/a>‘s extra-long ski days with the “Super Sun Ski Pass”.<\/p>\n

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\"CRANS

Crans Montana Tourism & Olivier Maire<\/p><\/div>\n

Crans Montana <\/a>has been dubbed the \u201csun terrace\u201d of Switzerland.<\/p>\n

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\"Sunshine

Sunshine Village & Paul Zizka<\/p><\/div>\n

For sunshine\u00a0skiing you can’t beat\u00a0Banff’s <\/a>\u00a0Sunshine\u00a0Village\u00a0(the name says it all). It\u2019s in Alberta, officially hailed Canada\u2019s sunniest province.<\/p>\n

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Send us your best Bluebird pics, and we’ll post them for everyone to drool over!<\/p>\n

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Want to know why there\u2019s 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,\u00a0January’s definitely not the time\u00a0for\u00a0feeling blue.\u00a0We\u2019re therefore rebranding Blue Monday\u00a0“Bluebird Monday” (Bluebird: Adjective. A bright sunny day after a night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ski-holidays","has-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","no-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sno.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}