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Case Study: UK to the Dolomites by train
In February 2025, Iain travelled by train from the UK to 3 Zinnen in the Dolomites in Italy. Until now, travelling by train from the UK to the Dolomites without an overnight stop en route has been restricted to taking the Eurostar from London to Amsterdam, changing to an OBB Nightjet service to Innsbruck, then...

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Virgin to compete with Eurostar on London-Europe HS1 route?
This week has seen several reports that the Virgin Group is readying itself to order £500 million of trains as part of its bid to break Eurostar’s monopoly on cross-channel passenger services. ‘Project Bullet’ Under the codename Project Bullet, Virgin has been raising funds from investors so that they can services in 2029. It has been...

Six more French ski resorts awarded the ‘Flocon Vert’
Last week at the International Festival of Mountain Professions in Chambéry, the environmental organisation Mountain Riders confirmed that six more ski resorts have been awarded the ‘Flocon Vert’ sustainability label. The new resorts to receive the accreditation are: Font-Romeu (Pyrenees-Orientales) Val d’Isère (Savoie) Tignes (Savoie) Valloire (Savoie) Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc (Haute-Savoie) Cordon (Haute-Savoie) In addition, two...