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The adrenaline junkies Mini moon: Les Gets, France When the snow melts in Les Gets, it reveals Europe’s largest bicycle park and 80 miles of marked trails. Try Buzz Performance for bicycle hire and guided tours. Alta Lumina will organise magical, illuminated night walks and there’s a new, luxury spa, too — Les Sources du Chéry — in which to soothe your muscles. Honeymoon: Borneo On Turquoise Holidays’s Wild Borneo 10-night itinerary, you’ll observe wild orangutans, pygmy elephant...

It’s a landmark for so many of you. Just a few more turns and you’ll be in Morzine, Les Gets or Avoriaz, settling into the winter holiday you’ve been waiting for. For others, it’s Batman, surveying the valley floor from his elevated position. Where am I? Taninges Télécabines, of course.   For eleven years I’ve passed what we’ve been calling ‘ski lift graveyard’, wondering what the heck goes on down there. With its location right on the roadside, row after row of old chair lif...

The reopening of ski lifts has been postponed Credit: Getty The slopes are deathly silent bar the sporadic swoosh of fresh snow sliding off pine trees in the warm sun. I am out skinning in Les Gets and there’s no doubt about it: the soul-soothing serenity of go-slow snow sports – ski touring, snowshoeing, cross-country skating – has ensured a certain festive magic for adopted locals like myself and domestic tourists lucky enough to wind up in the French ski resort over the Christmas perio...

Parts of the Alps got over a metre of snow last weekend, but will Irish holidaymakers get to ski Europe’s slopes this winter? Once Covid forced ski resorts to close back in March, and Ischgl in Austria’s Tyrol got singled out as a “superspreader”, this season was under threat. So far, at least one operator (Hotelplan/Inghams in the UK) has cancelled all departures until February. Others have gone out of business. The rest hope they can survive this season to rebuild for ’21/22. Switze...