As well as founding Ski Flight Free, Iain also presents The Ski Podcast. Earlier this month, he was joined by Daniel Elkan from Snowcarbon and Anna Hughes from Flight Free UK in a Facebook Live event to discuss train travel to the Alps.
Useful links and notes
- Great options for checking your carbon footprint include the WWF Footprint Calculator and Ecopassenger
- Find out more about the Save The Ski Train campaign on Facebook
- You can sign the petition here
- Changing stations in Paris is not difficult. This video shows Iain’s journey to Courchevel last winter
Iain travelled out last week to Courchevel via Eurostar and TGV on a super-smooth journey that took just 9 hours from London to Moutiers. #SkiFlightFree on your next ski holiday – www.skiflightfree.org
Posted by Ski Flight Free on Sunday, 26 January 2020
- Train travel in the ‘new normal’ is very different
- Iain referred to this study about the chances of catching Covid on a train
Travelling on Eurostar in the 'New Normal'
Iain from Ski Flight Free reports on his journey from London to Paris on Eurostar yesterday.He was on his was to Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Posted by Ski Flight Free on Friday, 17 July 2020
- You can hear more about Iain’s trip to Zermatt and Saas Fee by train in Episode 57 of The Ski Podcast
- Iain likes to book direct with Eurostar and SNCF
- Anna has travelled to Scotland on the Caledonian Sleeper on multiple occasions
- It’s possible to travel overnight to Austria with the Alpen Express service
- Iain has previously written for Ski2 about taking the train to Champoluc
- Sam Haddad travelled on the ski train to Les Arcs
- Daniel recommends the Railmap of Europe
You can also listen to this special as a podcast: