"I've always wanted to try skiing, but it's not a cheap holiday and I have always had a lingering suspicion that some resorts are like Las Vegas in the mountains, with artificial snow, damaging infrastructure, annihilated vegetation and air-freighted fine dining in short, profoundly unsustainable. However, if there's a way to have a green family ski holiday, then sign me and my husband, Joe, two kids and my mum up. Here's how to do it."
"There are many benefits to the train more space to move around, play, snooze, and no limits on weight for regular-size bags (provided you can carry them), liquids or picnic goods, provided they are consumed during the journey. And, of course, there's the visceral sense of going somewhere. The fields, lakes and towns of France whiz by and our kids marvel at the distance on the map. As sunset approaches, we see snow-capped mountains at first hazy, then crystal clear."
Ski resorts often feel profoundly unsustainable because of artificial snow, damaging infrastructure, destroyed vegetation and air-freighted food. Travel usually makes up the largest part of a ski trip's environmental impact. The greenest ski resort is the one reachable without flying, and train routes connect London to many French Alpine resorts. Eurostar's Snow train and connecting TGVs can deliver families to major ski areas by evening, or travellers can use a Paris sleeper to arrive by morning. Trains offer more space, relaxed baggage rules for regular bags, allowance for picnic goods, and continuous scenic views en route. Arrival points such as Bourg Saint-Maurice provide direct mountain access and sharpen awareness of the trip's carbon footprint.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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