Thinking about a holiday in the mountains this winter - but unsure what the snow conditions are going to be like? Pretty good, if the live webcam from Pertisau is anything to go by. Forecasts are very promising, according to the BBC: "Snow fell across most Austrian resorts on Thursday 29th November, which was perfect timing, as many resorts prepare to open ... the recent snowfall seen across the Alps creating excellent piste conditions..."
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I came across the first snows of winter last weekend while walking over the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire. Looking towards the Yorkshire Dales, I noticed that there was even more snow on the Whernside and Ingleborough. It was little more than a dusting where I was, but it did make me start to wonder what it’s going to be like in the mountains of the Alps or Scandinavia this winter? Need some inspiration?

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Travel to one particular valley deep with the Austrian Alps, and each day, at five o’ clock in the afternoon, you will hear the mountains echo to the deep, dulcet tones of a large bronze bell...

This is the huge Peace Bell that hangs in a giant frame at the southern end of the village of Mösern above the spectacularly beautiful Inn valley. It is the largest open-air bell in the Alps...

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The journey continues, for those rascally Hairy Bikers, eating their way through Europe on a mammoth “Bake-ation” that certainly looks like a lot of fun. In the latest episode they reached Italy, where they were genuinely thrilled to find a baker who made pasta-filled pies! Read the full post

It’s one of the art world’s most iconic paintings, an image we’re all probably familiar with – even if we can’t always remember who painted it. It’s brilliant and colourful, strikingly beautiful and called simply The Kiss.

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