Ski underneath starry skies

The experience of snaking down a ski run with the stars above you is not the one that is easily forgotten. At Slovakia's largest ski resort, Jasna, night skiing is offered on floodlit slopes every evening from 6-9pm.

Two cable cars carry night owls up into the Low Tatras mountains to hit either the intermediate 750m race slope, No 1 Pretekarska Priehyba-Zaharadky, or the easier 990m slope, No 13 Biela Put.

Warm up afterwards with a hearty dinner of potato dumplings and goats cheese before making the most of some of the best value apres-ski drinking around in the nearby town of Liptovsky Mikulas