We spent 10 days in Bordeaux in April and were blown away but how much this big-little city packs in. We wandered endlessly and aimlessly discovering new old-neighbourhoods, beautiful 18th century buildings, shady green parks and crumbling old ruins. Here’s some of our observations and highlights, grouped in categories that make sense to me. Hope they help you discover the hidden gems of this beautiful city. The Borderlais people are […]
Overall: Stupendous. I was going to leave it at that, but I thought I’d better explain my rating! The Dolomites is the most astoundingly majestic alpine range I have ever seen. No wonder it is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Dolomiti Superski region is so big there is no one single map of the area that fits in all the ski areas and mountains on one page – above […]
Overall Kitzbühel is famous for the world cup downhill the Hahnenkamm which is just one of the 96 runs accessed by 58 lifts across the sprawling resort. There’s 233km of pistes, – and you can ski the Hahnenkamm Streif racecourse all the way to the bottom at the end of the day (we needed waterski’s to get through the last part at the base!) There are three mountain peaks (Hahnenkamm – Pengelstein […]