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20th June 201920th June 2019

Shall I buy a wetsuit?

If you are going in the water regularly (particularly in the UK) you should definitely get your own wetsuit. The better the fit, the warmer you'll be and the better time you'll have in the sea / lake / river / puddle. Also, there are two types of people in this world: those who pee …

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15th June 201920th June 2019

Get to the Alps without flying!?

Well, more specifically our little town of Morzine. There are loads of options to get to the Three Valleys, but it is less obvious to get to our end of the Alps without using Stelios' orange fling machines... but it's definitely possible and in many ways easier, particularly if you are coming from the South …

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6th June 20196th June 2019

Learn to surf in the UK

We just got back from one of our weekends away to Cornwall - there was 28 of us! A bigger crew than normal, I think due to the fact it was May bank holiday and the campsite we stay at hosted the Chill at the Mill festival. Frankly it was epic. Our normal surf weekends …

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29th May 201929th May 2019

Bag yourself a FREE ski trip!

When people take over one of our chalets there's always one free place given to the organiser AND that person also gets a free all area 6 day Portes du Soleil lift pass. Why not make that person you!? We have two chalets running in Morzine, France. One has 12 beds, the other has 13. …

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17th May 201917th May 2019

Summer in the mountains? Really!!??

Yep, really. In many ways the mountains are way better during the summer. Obvs, my passion and first love is the snow and all things sliding - but during the summer the mountains are B. E. A. UTIFUL!! And, they can get super warm. What's not love about wild swimming in a mountain lake, spotting …

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12th May 201929th May 2019

is it worth going on a dry ski slope?

YES. Definitely. It is of course true to say that it is not much like the snow, it is true to say that it hurts more when you fall over and it is true to say that if you have one of those giant fridge places with artificial snow inside they are more like the …

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8th May 2019

Ready for Brexit?

HA! More like neverexit... One day our politicians might work it out for us. We're ready for anything here at the HOFNAR experience. Obviously our UK activities are entirely unaffected, but for our European operations we are braced and ready for whatever is thrown at us. The HOFNAR experience Ltd now has a French branch …

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5th May 20198th May 2019

Are they singles holidays?

The short answer is 'no'. But this is one of the most common questions I get asked. More and more people are travelling solo and with the HOFNAR experience almost 90% of our guests come along (at least for the first time) as individuals. Many then return with friends made on the trip and so …

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2nd May 20198th May 2019

Les Gets is back!

The UCI world cup tour is the event(s) of the world cup downhill biking calendar. Les Gets (the next village along from our base in Morzine) was one of the original routes on the tour, but it hasn't visited the village since 2004, and that was an epic race. Les Gets has hosted Crankworx for …

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30th April 20198th May 2019

chill at the mill

Music festivals are two-a-penny these days and with the big ones meaning large price tags, long walks, rubbish camping, long queues and miniscule views... I've gone off them. Luckily for us there is a tiny (some might say boutique) festival that for us is how a festival should be. Chill at the Mill is held …

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