Snow food

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Snow food The Dolomites are home to Italy’s finest gourmet ski area. WILLIAM HAM BEVAN puts feasts before pistes in the Badia Valley Mountaineering lore has got it right: the last few yards of the ascent are always the worst. My stomach felt as bloated as a proverbial lead balloon, and each uphill step bolstered […]

Can you keep a secret?

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Can you keep a secret? WILLIAM HAM BEVAN didn’t want anyone to find out about the uncrowded slopes and welcoming villages of Switzerland’s Val d’ Anniviers, but we twisted his arm Anyone who has gone on a package ski trip will be familiar with the torchlight descent – the après-ski classic in which a pack […]

Relight my fire

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Relight my fire WILLIAM HAM BEVAN rekindles his love for an old French flame Keep it a bit quiet – mustn’t tempt fate, you understand – but I’ve got a spot of good news. Val and I are seeing each other again. We’re taking it slowly at first – spent just a week together last […]

Northern exposure

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Northern exposure The air is 30 degrees below zero, so WILLIAM HAM BEVAN wraps up warm for an activity break in Finnish Lapland. Then they tell him to plunge naked into icy water… Last season, one visitor to Finnish Lapland took on a mythical status in the region’s après-ski yarns. The man – British, in […]

No shilly chaleting

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No shilly chaleting A new breed of ski accommodation combines opulent service with the warm glow of home, writes WILLIAM HAM BEVAN The more expensive the present you buy for a child, the more likely they are to play with the wrapping paper. Staying at Chalet Louise – one of the best in the Swiss […]

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CAM: Cambridge Alumni Magazine Published three times a year in print and online, CAM is a magazine for the 200,000-plus Cambridge alumni around the world. By just about any metric, it’s Britain’s most successful university magazine. In 2010, it was the first alumni title from outside the United States to win CASE’s Robert Sibley Magazine […]

CAM

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CAM: Cambridge Alumni Magazine Published three times a year in print and online, CAM is a magazine for the 200,000-plus Cambridge alumni around the world. By just about any metric, it’s Britain’s most successful university magazine. In 2010, it was the first alumni title from outside the United States to win CASE’s Robert Sibley Magazine […]

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Title to go here Journalism is my passion as well as my trade. A decade working on national newspapers drilled me in the importance of clarity, accuracy, punctuality and good style. My specialisms include travel, education, media and cultural history, but I write across a wide range of topics. Here’s what I do. Lorem ipsum […]