The Metro reports today that Europe's biggest indoor ski slope Snoasis has got the go-ahead 'as long as problems with its environmental impact are sorted out'.
Hmm, still some way to go then. In the meantime, here is a picture of what it might look like.
The forums on the Snoasis site are very quiet, which is odd considering the amount of noise the anti-Snoasis protestors are making.
Martin Couzins, online editor
So you're in Ghent. You'll be needing some of that world-famous Belgian beer, but where's the best place to drink it? This is far from exhaustive, but I uncovered a couple of gems on my recent jaunt:
On Vrijdagmarkt. Dulle Griet claims to offer 250 beers - and while we didn't count 'em, the menu was very extensive. And delicious.
It speciality is 'Kwak Max', which is a large Kwak served in a glass so desirable that customers are asked to leave a shoe as a deposit. I didn't get a picture of it, but found one on flickr:
A small, rootsy music venue down an alley off Groentenmarkt. There's a small courtyard out front and another room upstairs. We turned up just before midnight to find three young people doing remarkable things with a piano, double bass and drum kit.
Here are all three bars on a Google Map...
Nathan Midgley, web producer
Travel Weekly's Flora Ioannou was in Ibiza at the the annual Pirates Charity Premiere which raised over €100,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
While there, Flora asked some of the British soap stars - Tom Chambers, Rebecca Grant, Gaynor Faye, Linda Robson, Charlie Condou and Sue Cleaver - about their favourite and least favourite holiday destinations.
Martin Couzins, online editor
Following on from the news Cadogan Holidays is offering customers haggling lessons, we decided to cast around for examples of haggling.
Here we have a haggle over shoes. I had a similar experience in Marrakech a few years ago, which was remarkably similar to this . . .
Martin Couzins, online editor
I passed through Brussels on the way to Ghent over the weekend and snapped these pics:
A large-scale vending machine called 'Self Supermarket'. One of our party observed that it should have been called 'Roboshop'.
A television with isolated listening points. You can't hear a thing unless you stand on the orange spot.
...and this is Graslei, in the heart of Ghent itself. There are more Ghent pics in my Travel Weekly photo gallery.
(If you want to help us test the photo galleries by setting up one of your own, email jackie.david@rbi.co.uk.)
Nathan Midgley, web producer
No more headaches for travellers to Morocco who fancy some souk shopping.
Cadogan Holidays is offering travellers a unique addition to its Morocco Souks tour – haggling classes.
Its Marrakesh tour guides will run through the essentials of haggling with market traders and offer top tips on shopping hotspots, handicrafts and how to get the best deals.
Martin Couzins, online editor
BA's chief exec has told the House of Commons transport select committee that with hindsight he would not have moved into T5 when he did. TW's Ian Taylor was at the committee and here is his story.
Martin Couzins, online editor
Watch the House of Commons transport select committee grill BAA and BA on the Heathrow Terminal 5 fiasco live. BAA's Coiln Matthews and Nigel Rudd are currently being quizzed and BA's Willie Walsh is up at 4pm.
Martin Couzins, online editor
Not often you get to see behind the scenes on a cruise ship but TW was shown the engine room and galleyon Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas. Here we have the engine room footage - six enormous diesel engines are used to power the ship (not all at the same time).
When we dropped in one engine was operating and the heat and noise was quite something.
Martin Couzins, online editor
This week is Sun Awareness Week - a part of the British Association of Dermatologists' campaign to raise awareness of skin cancer.
Good timing - this is the week in which the UK is getting warmer (it feels like summer - hoorah)and the press is full of tips on getting in shape for the beach.
Add to this the fact that half of Brits are unable to recognise changes to skin that could indicate cancer and that every four hours someone in the UK dies of skin cancer and you have some compelling reasons to think about the effects of tanning.
And here is a publicity stunt picture for a self-tanning product taken at St Pancras station to mark the start of Sun Awareness Week.
Martin Couzins, online editor
Nathan Midgley
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