Hotel le Mottaret Mottaret Méribel France If you thought that Méribel was known for skiing and skiing alone then think again. Yes, it a fantastic location for winter sports as I found out on a recent trip but it also offers all sorts of other activities throughout the year. There are some parts of the
Wilder Kaiser Austria On this trip I venture out into the most popular skiing region of Austria and find that my favourite winter sport is tobogganing. Driving through the sunny and snow covered mountains near Salzburg in January it was easy to see why this part of Austria is the most popular region
Jungfrau region Bernese Oberland Switzerland Read more about this wonderful region in Switzerland that is impossibly beautiful and tremendous fun (and it’s not all about skiing)! It’s ridiculously easy to get to Zurich from London, only a 75-minute flight from Heathrow. From there I travelled on the superb Swiss Rail system that saw me
The Snow Centre St Albans Hill, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP3 9NH Tel: 0844 770 7227 It is not the first thing that springs to mind – to go skiing on a swelteringly hot day in the middle of a British summer. The kids thought it was a great idea, as did M. I
Isola 2000 and Nice France As incongruous as it sounds getting to the southern French Alps is best achieved by flying into Nice. The ninety-minute flight takes you to the land of yachts and the super rich with all those beautiful people to look. I was to discover more of this luxury later but first
Switzerland: Elementary James Bond Training Training to become James Bond is something that has struck me and countless others as one of the coolest pursuits on the planet. Achieving it (or anything near it) is quite something else. My point of reference has always been On Her Majesty’s Secret Service one of the ‘lost’ Bond