After an exciting year of holiday taking and creating new holidays, the new Headwater brochure is almost ready to roll off the presses and will be distributed to far flung parts of the UK in the coming few weeks. New additions to the Headwater portfolio include a spectacular new walking holiday in Cuba that takes [...]

It’s that time again, when packs of dogs and intrepid adventurers pit their wits against the Alaskan wilderness.  The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race takes place every year in Alaska, and kicks off again on March 7th. Settlers flooded into Alaska in the late C18 and early C19 following a series of gold strikes, the most famous of [...]

It seems we are still in winter’s icy grip, with angry motorists crashing out in their cars – if not actually crashing them – and others having to be rescued by the army as a foot of snow swamped the salt starved roads of the southern counties of the UK in the last 24 hours.

The World Economic Forum has been taking place this week in Davos, Switzerland. It usually makes the headlines a bit more than it has done this week, though according to pundits quite a few big hitters have stayed at home crying into their spreadsheets, with the attendees wandering from seminar to seminar trying to remain [...]

    Cross-country skiing can be as easy or as hard as you want to make it,  so if you like it to be more of a challenge than a holiday, you can sign up for the annual Swedish Vasaloppet for the bargain basement price of 186 euro per person!

 A word in from our guide Stuart Sommers who leads our Provence Coastal Walk – it has snowed in his village of Chateauneuf de Gadagne for the first time in 3000 years! You can see the proof on Stuart’s blog. With snow even in Provence, the snow conditions across the Alps (and Scandinavia) really are [...]