• 10 of Europe’s best cosy cabins for winter

    Perfect snow, hot saunas, twinkling stars and the snuggliest blankets. We pick the most scenic winter hideawaysWith their cone-shaped, wood-tiled roofs that reach almost to the snowy ground of their little fenced gardens, these pretty cabins, scattered across a high plain at Velika Planina, have a cute appearance that belies tough-nut origins. These were the traditional huts of one of Europe’s largest herder settlements, dating back to the 16th century. Still now in summer, cows are brough
  • ‘Our magical cabin’: a fairytale ski hut in the Austrian Alps

    An isolated hideaway near Kitzbühel is the perfect base for a family skiing trip – and an opportunity to indulge in naked moonbathingThe night was as dark as the bottom of a well when I pushed open the old timber door, releasing a wraith-like furl of steam into the frost-glittered air. Shoving my wet feet into my snowboots, I stepped out and walked naked across creaky-fresh snow beneath a full moon.Fir and pine silhouettes towered all around, a silent forest filing up into the blueish

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