Three stays with lofty views

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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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

Teresa Levonian Cole climbs aboard the latest iteration of the Orient Express for a sybaritic journey to the ‘underground city’ of Matera

Ask most British motorhomers about their preferred European road trip destinations and you’re likely to hear familiar answers: France, Spain, maybe even Italy and Portugal. Germany, however, rarely ma

A French medieval hilltop town is the location of Toile Blanche, a former 19th-century farmhouse reimagined as a boutique hotel