IT’S unlikely you’ll have heard of La Tzoumaz. With just 300 permanent residents, few hotels and no town centre (or après ski) to speak of, it’s not the sort of place you’d expect to find a ten-minute ski from Verbier, Switzerland’s sexiest...
Travel
Monday 6th February 2012, 3:51am
THREE, two, one, the race countdown began, as my heart knocked treble-time. With my ski racing bib on, adrenalin pumping, I was staring down a steep, crisply-groomed slope, preparing to race it in my first ever downhill speed run. Then the horn...
Monday 6th February 2012, 3:49am
Literary London V-Day dinner at Brown’s
This romantic package is perfect for those who find exquisite poetry and great food. A tour of the beautiful, private London library is followed by a three course dinner and fizz at the hotel’s...
Monday 30th January 2012, 2:10am
WITH the wind flying in my face, I looked ahead to see my pack of dogs, panting and straining at the leash, pulling us through the pristine white landscape of Haute Maurienne Vanoise.
With just the teams of huskies in sight as far as the...
Monday 30th January 2012, 2:04am
See Ayers Rock by balloon for the first time
While Uluru (Ayers Rock) is one of Australia’s best known monuments it has previously only been accessible by guided walk or camel. This is all set to change in March when visitors after a new...
Wednesday 25th January 2012, 12:02am
PRINCE Charles surely wouldn’t approve. In the dell of Villabuena de Alava, a sleepy, sloping village squatting among the vineyards of Spain’s Rioja Alavesa region, sits the jagged, unruly modernism of Hotel Viura.
It is one of those “...
Monday 23rd January 2012, 3:15am
The American satirist PJ O’Rourke had little time for snow sports. As he put it: “Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.” That might not have...
Monday 16th January 2012, 2:22am
The Maldives: a honeymoon paradise where people take sunset strolls and spell out proposals of marriage in shells on powdery white beaches; where time slows down and life swims at the pace of the giant green turtles trawling the reefs. But there...
Monday 16th January 2012, 2:20am
Sundance Film Festival gears up
The Sundance Film Festival starts on Thursday lin Park City, Utah. Sundance Film Festival started out in 1978 as an event designed to attract more filmmakers to Utah while staying away from the overpowering...
Monday 16th January 2012, 2:19am
Budapest is sometimes compared to Paris. While very pleasant indeed – especially if you go in the summer and lounge by the vast 19th century public baths in the scorching sun – the city doesn't really compete with Paris in terms of beauty,...
Editor's Letter
Allister Heath
UK can’t count on others messing up
THERE are two ways a country can do well. The first is to introduce domestic policies that boost work,...
