Every year, as the weather gets cooler, the anticipation for the upcoming snowshoe season starts to grow. Many of us dream of the first flakes of snow gently cascading toward the ground, the crisp awakening air, the quiet after a … Continue reading → “Adventures to Add to Your Snowshoe Bucket List”

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In the depths of winter, there can be few experiences better than getting out and about in snow-covered landscapes and taking in the peace and solitude. Granted your choices of resorts are wide, but when the snowshoes are packed and … Continue reading → “Monarch Airlines: Blazing Snowshoe Trails in Val d’isère”

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Even … Continue reading → “Living in the Top Rated National Park in France”

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On the day (when these words were penned), that the total glamour and glitz of the Cannes Film Festival starts, and the weather has been so kind to us that the good burghers of the Côte D'Azur are worried that they might not gain permission to fill their swimming pools this summer due to drought.  Our colleagues, are out on the hill above 2,000 metres enjoying abundant snow.

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The Jura mountain range runs along the French-Swiss border with some lower foothills just inside Germany in the north. On the Swiss side of the border the mountains drop steeply, often with impressive limestone cliff faces, down to a plateau which rises again to meet the main Swiss Alps.

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