Italy

Val Senales is a little freestyle summer gem tucked away in the heart of the South Tyrol, we visited a couple of year's ago and it looked a little like this...

Sitting at the top of one of the narrower gorges you can drive up, Obereggen is a piste-side mini resort that links into the Latemar ski area.

The Tre Valli is based around Moena. You’ve the option of staying here and enjoying a traditional Italian mountain town, or basing yourself on the pistes at a resort like Passo San Pellegrino.

This is the most peculiar-looking mountain you’ll ever see

On the face of it, here we have a typical tiny Dolomitian village, tucked in the heart of the Trentino region, complete with small village square, several cheap guesthouses, enough hotels to suit everyone and a smattering of eateries with real people as well as tourists.