Ski en Pays-Bas ?

Skiing in The Netherlands is not a concept that comes easily to mind. Surely most of the country is technically below sea level, and what’s left is pretty flat? Surely this isn’t a country famed for its snow? Ice skating on frozen canals perhaps, but no snow skiing. Well Holland does have eight snow centres, but they’re all indoors. It’s quite a healthy tally for a country of less than five million people, only Japan has more, and they’re all small, old facilities from the mid-1990s. The indoor snow centres of the Netherlands are largely impressive structures, and none more so than the world’s largest (no, it’s not ski Dubai...), SnowWorld at Landgraaf in the very south of the country.