A compact family resort in a stunning backdrop, close to the town of Pau, Gourette has to be the secret pearl of the Pyrennees. With 1000 metres of descent, a zone dedicated to beginners called 'Happy Place' and a snowpark, one has a variety of choices on offer, all of the mentioned feeding down to the main resort centre. If one lives in this region the resort is accessible on a daily basis, only a short drive away from the nearby towns and if you're coming from say the UK it's a perfect weekend getaway destination with the Lowcost provider airports of Biarritz and Lourdes/Tarbes only a stone's throw away. If one doesn't enjoy sliding over the white stuff there are a variety of other activities on offer; nordique baths, snow pods and igloos to sleep under the stars, snowshoeing, dog sledding, snaketobogganing to name but a few. And if one tires of the snow there are the surf beaches of the Basque country not that far away, or the 'tapas' over the Spanish border for that matter....so I would say, come and discover!