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The perfect holiday in Kitzbühel, the ‘most beautiful’ ski resort in Europe
Kitzbühel is a beautiful medieval town in the heart of the Austrian Tirol with a truly vast ski area spread over three sectors. It best suits intermediates and experts, and the potential for travelling on piste and clocking up some serious distance on your ski tracker is almost on a scale with the giant Paradiski and Trois Vallées ski areas in France.
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The best après-ski bars and activities in Kitzbühel
For all its jewel-painted medieval Old Town charms, Kitzbühel packs a boisterous après-ski punch, with lively umbrella bars on the pistes and diverse pubs, bars and clubs in town. Once a year, when the World Cup comes to town in January, the party takes on epic proportions. Recognised as the circuit’s most challenging, and coveted, downhill course, the annual Hahnenkamm event floods Kitzbühel with some 100,000 ski fans, who party as hard as the athletes ski at live outdoor music performances and
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The 14 best restaurants in Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel is home to a seriously impressive selection of restaurants, which liberally pepper the medieval town as well as the surrounding mountains and villages. As one of Austria’s longest-standing glamourous winter resorts, Kitzbühel enjoys a well-deserved reputation as a gourmet destination, with restaurants such as the Tennerhof and Berggericht recognised as some of the finest in the country.
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The UK’s best Christmas and New Year breaks to book now
The festive season is nearly here, which means a stuffed social calendar and an outrageous number of canapés. It also makes for a rather hectic end to the year. As the country gets colder, bracing walks in the countryside become an enviable escape from the shopping, wrapping and military-level meal planning. Happily, there are plenty of places, bookable around the UK, that allow for a night, or a weekend, or even longer, away from all that. This year, spend the season away from the television re
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10 things Britain does better than the rest of the world
In recent years, Telegraph Travel has repeatedly highlighted the many ways in which other countries outshine Britain. Germany’s railways are more reliable (despite recent problems), and its autobahns far superior to our motorways. France’s villages have more vigour, and its waiters (though prone to snootiness) are infinitely more competent. Greek cuisine is healthier, and its people more welcoming. Americans are more patriotic, and their national parks put ours well and truly in the shade.
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Travel secrets of the world’s most frequent fliers
It was Mark Twain who said that, while good decisions are usually the product of experience, the only way to get that experience is by making some bad decisions first. And the world of air travel is certainly no exception on that front.
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The unspoilt Greek island under threat from cruise ships
I puffed up the last of 350 steep and slippery steps to Panagia Hozoviotissa. Spread out far below me was the turquoise bay of Agia Anna, where Luc Besson’s classic The Big Blue was filmed, and high above me the 10th-century monastery, with its eight floors linked by narrow stone staircases carved into the cliff face, like some fantastical fortress.
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