READER REVIEWS
Wow! Almost felt the powder snow kicking up round me! Thanks Graeme for a window
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JO LORIMER-GREEN
MIDHURST, UK
What a delightful description of a world I'm totally unfamiliar with. Being from Maine, I've never skied what others know as real powder. A friend who bolted to live in Aspen tells me that I'd have to learn to ski all over again
NELL WHITING
NEW YORK, USA
BIO
Graeme Lovell lives in a village called Bletchingley in England’s Surrey Hills. He tells people it is “… near Reigate …”, preferring to ignore that it is m closer to the undeniably less charming town of Redhill.
He can usually be found in an obscure location, as part of his ongoing quest to ski the 26 ski resorts in 26 different countries, or staying in quaint towns and villages in the UK, while trying to visit all 92 football league grounds to watch his beloved - but beleaguered - Exeter City Football Club, or going to exotic original film locations all around the globe, to re-shoot famous James Bond scenes and create YouTube concept teaser trailers, in his futile attempt to be cast as the next 007.
Graeme also spends time in his holiday properties in Barbados and Mallorca, and in his ski chalet in Austria, where he first learned to ski, 100+ ski resorts ago. He usually skis with his wife Dawn.
26 Ski Resorts is a journey of discovery, but also of adventure. In Europe, it takes the reader through all parts of The Alps, The Nordic Region, The Iberian Peninsula, and the former Eastern Bloc. Beyond Europe, you will be transported to North and South America, Oceania, Asia - even Africa!
26 Ski Resorts obviously contains a review of each of the ski resorts included. But more than that, it is a travelogue of the people and events that shape the writer’s time in each location, highlighting each country’s wonderful idiosyncrasies.
Although 26 Ski Resorts primarily focuses on downwhill skiing, it also takes in other winter pursuits, like nordic skiing, axe-throwing, dog-sledding and what it's like to spend a night in a Snowhotel.