Event Previews & Reviews from Morzine

Les Gets bike park always opens a few weekends before the lifts are open full time for the summer season and this year's dates have just been announced.

There's a lot going on this week with some great events, live music and apres ski parties.

The weather thankfully held off long enough for yesterday's European whip off competition in Les Gets to take place and spectators were treated to huge air and lots of style as competitors battled it out for the prize money.

The Relentless Freeze Festival did exactly what it said on the tin and those not wearing their ski jackets could be found with teeth chattering, huddled around the vin chaud stand wrapping themselves in a fruity alcoholic blanket.

Murray Buchan a skier who grew up on the finger-snapping plastic of Edinburgh's Hillend made a choice to ski rather than play rugby and hopefully that choice will take hi to an Olympic medal.

The snow is falling and it looks like March is going to be a bumper month in the Portes du Soleil.

July brings with it all sorts of sporting events. This year we have the EURO 2016 hosted in France at the start of the month, the annual tennis tournamant at Wimbledon and Formula 1 action at Silverstone, Budapest and Hockenheim.

So far we've seen not only some fantastic racing, stunning scenery and nail-biting sprints from the 2016 Tour de France, but we've witnessed several unusual crashes, the yellow jersey literally running up Mont Ventoux and more than one incident of an over-enthusiastic fan causing disruption.

Peak summer and August has it all, with events and activities to suit everyone.

Fête de la Musique is the celebration that takes place every summer solstice on 21st June in cities, towns and villages across France.