The mild weather around Europe seems to have sent many a skiers to Bulgaria's resorts.

Borovets, one of the top three winter resorts in the country, offered this weekend good skiing opportunities for its guests, mostly Russians and Britons. The resort has three runs open.

Skiers will find functional runs in Vitosha mountain, Bansko and Pamporovo.

Meanwhile experts commented that northern Europe could reap big benefits from global warming.

"The Medi...

By Stephen Wood
The Independent

They make an odd couple, as ski destinations and in most other respects. One country is a wealthy federation of great age, renowned for its service standards, and historically significant as the venue for the earliest British ski holidays. The other is an impoverished former socialist republic whose low-cost skiing experience "bears no comparison to skiing in the mainstream Alpine countries" according to the Good Sk...