There was spring snowfall and the whole place was just covered . . . I became like a child again. Two years later I went back to Lermoos with my husband for New Year's Eve and we've been doing that ever since.

When I think about being there, mentally, I put my slippers on.

Lermoos itself is a very small place . . . four big hotels and a few restaurants . . . but for anybody who goes there it's made special by the people. In Cafe Simon, for example, there's Paul and Elfride Simon, who are lovely. Elfride is probably the most spiritual and empathetic person I've ever met. She's a blow-in . . . Paul is from there but she's from another part of the Tyrol. You just drop into Cafe Simon after skiing and you never want to leave. Then there's also my friend Erika Mott who works for Topflight there . . .

known, of course, by her Irish name . . . 'de mot'!

New Year's Eve in the Post is really special . . . we meet up with the same people every year and the gala ball in the hotel is fabulous. It's strange bringing dressy clothes on a ski holiday! There's a sevencourse dinner with the most beautiful food and then at midnight we all go out on to the balcony and look out at the Zugspitze mountain. It might be snowing, maybe not. . .

There are fires lit all over the mountains and the most fantastic (legal! ) firework displays. It's magical. It's funny about Lermoos but part of me wants to tell everybody about it and part of me doesn't want anybody to know because I don't want it to change.

Aileen Eglington is managing director of AE Consulting and numbers Topflight among her clients