The food, the culture, the art, the accent, the sheer bloody romance of the place… yet my favourite thing about France is that you’re never more than a layby away from a bloke sat in a plastic chair s

I had no idea that, on a group ski and snowboarding holiday to Tignes in the French Alps, I’d end up in what was akin to a Teletubby outfit bobbing on my back like a Champagne cork in an icy lake. Nor

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THE ALPINE EXPRESS

Coastal views, hilltop vistas, verdant farmland and heather moors all wrapped up in an epic Scottish ride

Suitable for all the family, snow-sure Sölden has high alpine altitude and great snow-making systems, for a luxuriously long ski season lasting from October to May. In fact, Sölden is the only ski are