My good lady wife, Louise, can be tempted away from home at Christmas but she has conditions; we have to stay in a catered chalet and it has to offer the very highest standard of accommodation because "why would we want to spend money staying somewhere that is not as nice as our own home?"
Now you can call her demanding and, to be honest, you’d probably be right but, as the main driver for ski holidays in my family, I have to tread carefully lest she decrees that we are off for some winter sun in the Canary Islands!