hi all
I am heading over to Europe for three weeks in late December with my wife, we are looking for a town in either France or Italy to stay in for three weeks with the following criteria:
- reasonably big town, that has a lot of charm and is a year round town rather then a resort, so my wife can do language lessons, wander around, shop at markets when not skiing etc..
- access to good skiing on public transport in 30mins, preferably 2000m+ altitude and medium to big resort size or a number of smaller resorts
- cross country skiing would be a bonus
I have considered the following (let me know if i have got if wrong with any of these)
- annecy (seems more like an hour to skiing)
- bourg st Maurice (lacking charm factor?)
- Bolzano (too far to skiing)
- Aosta (is the skiing good enough?)
Thanks for any thoughts.
I am heading over to Europe for three weeks in late December with my wife, we are looking for a town in either France or Italy to stay in for three weeks with the following criteria:
- reasonably big town, that has a lot of charm and is a year round town rather then a resort, so my wife can do language lessons, wander around, shop at markets when not skiing etc..
- access to good skiing on public transport in 30mins, preferably 2000m+ altitude and medium to big resort size or a number of smaller resorts
- cross country skiing would be a bonus
I have considered the following (let me know if i have got if wrong with any of these)
- annecy (seems more like an hour to skiing)
- bourg st Maurice (lacking charm factor?)
- Bolzano (too far to skiing)
- Aosta (is the skiing good enough?)
Thanks for any thoughts.