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All alone in the world’s biggest ski resort
...Val d’Isère led the way, getting its first drag lift in 1936, followed by Méribel in 1938 and Courchevel, boosted by public funding, in 1946....
February 3, 2024
Travel
Switzerland’s wildest ski tour
...Below were 500 metres of powder that, if it stayed stuck to the mountain, would provide a descent we’d remember for years....
December 1, 2023
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Travel
43 holidays to take in 2024
...The newest hotel in Venice, Violino d’Oro (violinodoro.com; doubles from €658) is close by, as is the Pensione Accademia (pensioneaccademia.it; doubles from about €300)....
December 30, 2023
FT MagazinePink Snow 2023: a winter sports special
Avoriaz: a ski city in the sky
...Tom Robbins was a guest of Pierre & Vacances (pierreetvacances.com)....
October 12, 2023
Travel
Black Crows — the making of a cult ski brand
...“Powermatch technology”, Head’s “Kinetic Energy Recovery System”), Black Crows skis feature jokey slogans hidden on the sidewalls: “I’m not scared”; “I don’t remember it being this far”; “You said you’d...
November 11, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Raffles London and the new era of super-luxe hospitality
...“We’ve got a strong brand presence in Asia — we’d be mad not to put a hotel in this part of the world,” says Sonja Vodusek, managing director of The Peninsula London....
September 23, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Travel
Across the Alps with a six-year-old
...The kids, eight and six, were in a state of high excitement — they’d been on ski lifts before but never in the middle of summer....
July 22, 2023
News in-depthForeign direct investment
Swindon’s investment challenge: former boom town seeks to revive its fortunes
...“We’d like to use those engineering skills in some other way, but the longer it goes on, the harder it gets” as the skills base dissipates, he said....
November 16, 2023
ObituaryChita Rivera
Chita Rivera, Broadway star, 1933-2024
...She learnt on the job, working with revered choreographers, lyricists and composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins....
February 3, 2024
Travel
From convalescent home to the Alps’ coolest hotel
...Tom Robbins was a guest of the Cōmodo (thecomodo.com). For more on Bad Gastein see gastein.com Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
March 4, 2023
Life & Arts
The death — and rebirth — of the ski resort
...“There’s no chance I’d take a client down there. Zero. Never again.”...
February 10, 2023
Travel
Storification, set-jetting and Sunday-night celebrations: travel trends for 2023 and beyond
...“After having children, I kind of felt I’d lost myself and my zest for life, I guess,” she says....
January 21, 2023
Transcript
Travel mini-series: the FT’s travel editor talks tourism
...Tom Robbins. . . because you know, in the olden days, you’d, you’re interested in somewhere you go and get The Lonely Planet, and you’d read a chapter about it or you read the whole book....
November 16, 2022
Travel
This winter’s most exciting ski destination: Albania’s Accursed Mountains
...This is an idea he finds hilarious: “Bajram Curri made Haiti and Liberia look like the Côte d’Azur....
November 2, 2022
FT MagazinePink Snow 2022: a winter sports special
Deep in the woods, a ski retreat that’s straight from a fairytale
...Perhaps because we’d appeared so out of our depth on arrival, Franz seemed determined to look after us....
October 12, 2022
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ObituaryWalter Mirisch
Walter Mirisch, film producer, 1921-2023
...“He achieved so much in life and in the industry — if you live to be 101 and produced The Apartment, I’d say it’s been a good run.”...
March 4, 2023
ReviewDance
Belly laughs with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo — review
...The ballerinas inevitably hog the limelight but every Trock also has a male alter ego: Jacques D’aniels, Boris Dumbkopf and the legendary Legupski brothers....
September 8, 2022
Due Diligence
Goldman Sachs tries to be an investment bank again Premium content
...Job moves Former Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins is leaving Goldman Sachs to join corporate intelligence group Hakluyt, sources tell DD....
March 1, 2023
HTSIThe best (seriously) remote retreats
In the Highlands, a lonely bothy begins a new life
...Though we’d been there barely a day, it was hard not to feel a bit like Robinson Crusoe spotting a footprint....
March 27, 2022
FT SeriesWellbeing and fitness: the world’s most brutally beautiful sporting adventures
Skiing’s longest run
...It was just before 4pm: we’d been skiing nonstop for seven hours. We’d covered 40km as the crow flies but 93km as we zigzagged up and down on lifts and pistes....
January 25, 2022
FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
Best books of 2021: Travel
...“When any long-haul flight can plausibly be described as an act of violence, we’d all do well to learn to dwell better, to know and love our own patch more deeply,” writes Atkins, the editor, in his introduction...
November 18, 2021
Travel
From Antwerp to Zanzibar: travel writers’ discoveries of 2022
...Those not staying can borrow a toboggan for the descent; they’d be missing one of Europe’s most peaceful retreats. Tom Robbins was a guest of the Berghaus Zallinger (zallinger.com)....
December 10, 2022
Transcript
Best of: Imposter syndrome: turning self-doubt into a positive
...Viv GroskopYes that’s right (laughter), Mel Robbins, the US, she’s a life coach. She’s one of the best paid public speakers in the world....
July 25, 2023
Transcript
How to have the perfect summer
...You don’t have to go to the Ben & Jerry’s, so you don’t have to go to the Baskin-Robbins. You got Mister Softee, kids.” Matt Vella Oh, my god. That’s my queen. Lilah Raptopoulos I know....
June 16, 2023
US politics & policy
‘We’re going backwards’: a divided America reacts to abortion decision
...made her way to Washington Square Park, where she found a handful of other young women carrying hastily-made signs, including ones that read: “Abort the Court” and “If I wanted the government in my womb I’d...
June 25, 2022

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