World winners Best Ski Resort 2019: Val Thorens (France) Best Freestyle Resort 2019: Laax (Switzerland) Best Ski Hotel 2019: W Verbier (Switzerland) Best New Ski Hotel 2019: Le Massif (Italy) Best Green Ski Hotel 2019: Valsana Hotel & Appartements (Switzerland) Best Ski Boutique Hotel 2019: Ki Niseko (Japan) Best Ski Chalet 2019: Chalet Les Anges, … Read more
Aged 14, I stayed with friends of my father’s in northern France for a few days, and that was when I discovered how fabulous French food was. This family owned an enormous sugar beet farm near Cambrai and lived in a chateau with servants. At lunch and dinner my 11-year-old sister and I dined in … Read more
Rolling hills patched together by vineyards and everyone’s favourite fizz: Sailing through France’s stunning Champagne region on a hotel barge The European Waterways hotel barge ‘Panache’ sails down the River Marne and the Canal latéral à la Marne Guests enjoy day trips to the cities of Reims and Epernay and even visit Champagne house Moët & … Read more
The daughter of the late Lord Mountbatten has revealed his battle to recover family heirlooms ‘taken by the former King Edward’, after he abdicated the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Speaking in a podcast launched by her daughter India Hicks, 51, who is Prince Charles‘ goddaughter, Pamela Hicks, 90, claimed that her father Louis, who … Read more
Forget airport stress – this is plain sailing: Why travelling by ferry can be less expensive and a lot more fun Fans say the ships can be less stressful, less expensive and a lot more fun Packing is easy as you can take as much kit as your car can carry Many ferries have cruise … Read more
If your image of Lyon is of a crowded airport en route to an annual ski trip, it’s time to think again. France‘s third largest city was founded by the Romans in 43BC and is the gastronomic capital of the country, so pack your loosest trousers. But it’s easy to zap excess calories walking around … Read more
Breast implants linked to a rare cancer should be banned in the UK as they have been in France, according to two women made ill by them. Emma O’Connell and Anna Nightingale both had their macrotextured breast implants taken out earlier this year because of health problems. Ms Nightingale, 45, got the cancer authorities are … Read more
For just over a year, two of the greatest poets in the English language lived within a few miles of one another, in the Quantock Hills in Somerset. They were both bristling with energy. William Wordsworth, aged 27, had once walked 3,000 miles through France and Switzerland. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three years his junior, thought … Read more
Winston Churchill’s stirring promise to the nation after Dunkirk in 1940 was finally fulfilled on D-Day, when the largest invasion force ever assembled – 7,000 ships laden with more than 132,000 men – emerged from the dawn mists rolling off the Channel to face the might of Hitler’s armies in Nazi-occupied France. The courage of … Read more
Aged nine, she was walking home with candy and food for a goldfish she’d won at her school fair when a man stopped her in the steps to her flat and raped her. Now 39, Adelaide Bon, from Paris tells her story in a heartbreaking book called the Little Girl on the Ice Floe. The … Read more
‘Top up?’ inquired my husband, as we sat on the sun-dappled terrace. It’s hard to think of a nicer question. Especially when asked on a balmy afternoon in Beaune, the unofficial capital of Burgundy’s Côte-d’Or region, where we were simply doing what the good people of this dignified town do best – savouring one of … Read more
Airbus releases fascinating time-lapse video showing how it assembles its brand new A330neo The mesmerising video was filmed at the plane manufacturer’s enormous Toulouse, France, plant It shows the assembly and painstaking spray painting of an A330-900 for Air Mauritius Air Mauritius is now the first Southern Hemisphere-based carrier to have an A330neo in its … Read more
A science student who has been told she is ‘faking’ her disability has admitted she feels nervous to ask someone to give up their bus seat because of disability discrimination, as she says she is determined to break down the stigma around invisible illnesses. Graduate student, Sara Whitestone, 24, from Ohio, who is currently studying … Read more