HIGH HIKES
According to Inntravel’s man in the Alps, Eric Kendall, the company’s newest itinerary, in Piedmont’s Valle Mairat near the border with France, promises ‘the best alpine walking of your life and excellent Italian hospitality, or your money back’. Among the many attractions along the way is tiny Elva, whose museum explains how, from the mid-1800s, the villagers harvested human hair to make wigs for actresses and English lords. Eight nights from £995, half board, with luggage transfers between hotels; inntravel.co.uk.