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Chefs, Cars and Skiing

This week, we're talking to travel guru, Amin Momen, whose London-based company Momentum Ski organises bespoke holidays.  Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy 

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The Tennis Champion Who Escaped the Nazis

This week, we're in Vienna for an unusual episode of Action Packed Travel – unusual because our principal guest is Felice herself. She's just published a book about her grandparents' dramatic escape from Vienna to London on the eve of World War II. 

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Cycling From Antarctic To Arctic

Chris and his girlfriend Phoebe are in the saddle, for what you might describe by any standards as a rather long bike ride. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy 

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Thermae Bath Spa – A Fusion Of Old And New

With the sunny weather outside, we felt it was time to republish this episode about Bath Thermae Spa. Bath in the southwest of England is famous for its Roman baths. In its Regency heyday, the supposedly curative waters attracted the cream of British society…and of course, Jane Austen. 2,000 years later, the  waters were re-harnessed…

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The Future Of European Skiing

Only a handful of  ski resorts in the Alps will in future offer reliable snow cover throughout the season. These include Val d'Isere, Tignes and Val Thorens in France, Cervinia in Italy, and Zermatt in Switzerland – not forgetting the Austrian glaciers.

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The Ultimate Ski Chalets

Globally, there's just a handful of specialist Courchevel operators who look after their guests on this giddy level. London-based Consensio is the leader of the pack. 

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Sea and Ski With Melody Sky

Action woman extraordinary – mountain and ocean photographer, skier and freediver, Melody lives her life on the edge.

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Cervinia – On The Italian Side Of The Matterhorn

It was three years ago that we launched our podcast and today we're in a village that dates back to 1930. It is now evolving into what should become one of the most important  future destinations for skiers in the whole of Europe. 

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Jersey’s Occupation in the Second World War

We went on a lightning tour of some of the crumbling coastal defences linked by a network of underground passages and even an underground German hospital.

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