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Inside Obertauern, the ski resort made famous by The Beatles that gets so much snow it’s ‘climate-change-proof’ – and a stay at a VERY seductive hotel there with a heavenly pool and rooms with bedside condoms

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That unsettling cry bouncing from peak to peak. That was me. Startled as I careered on my snowboard off one of the world’s steepest and fastest chairlift descents, in the Austrian ski resort of Obertauern.

Luckily, I had a great hotel in which to let my nerves settle – the newly opened Obertauern Places Hotel. A luxuriously funky property with enticing options for post-slope relaxation and the regaling of chairlift derring-do.

As well as eye-catchingly comfy bedrooms, there’s the stunning

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Sweet side of Alabama: Quiet bays, kayaking on ‘America’s Amazon’ and seductive music – the US state’s Gulf coast provides a spectacular alternative to Florida

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‘Where the skies are so blue,’ the late Ronnie Van Zant sang in the country music classic Sweet Home Alabama, in a southern drawl full of conviction. Looking out from my seafront balcony, he certainly seems to have got that right.

As the beaming sun settles high in the sky above sugar-white sands and crystalline waters, it quickly becomes clear that the catchy tune is spot on about this much-maligned state – so often talked down because of its rural

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