In order to help you out on your next international ski trip, or simply provide a bit of inspiration for your next après experience ("upside-downer," anyone?) we compiled this continent-by-continent guide with the help of some après loving friends.
Gifts by continent: Gift guide 2011: Africa.
Particular traditional and cultural values among the diverse communities across the continent have guided the way people interact with their environment and how natural resources are used and managed.
In the spirit of a continent-hopping tour guide, she hits all the high points of recent research at top speed.
He transformed them from under-achievers into the kings of the continent when he guided them to five successive European Cups between 1956 and 1960, scoring in each of the finals.
His audience was the rest of Europe, and many of the politicians listening to him were already worried that he lacked the decorum to guide the Continent.
Experts also point to the limitations on the power of an American president and on a country like Germany, which is the dominant European power but whose 20th-century history makes it awkward for it to take a leadership role or guide the Continent out of its economic doldrums.
Surely Italy, on the verge of financial collapse, doesn't have the spare cash to drop on a redundant white elephant like MEADS -- and if Germany does, it's money better spent helping guide the continent through the euro crisis.
In 1802, he set off for the Continent as a "grand tour" guide to two young men, sons of one of Samuel Romilly's friends.
The uncertainty of the outcome means that the European Union, which has been holding its breath as the German vote nears, is likely to wait a few more months before learning where Berlin would like to guide the troubled Continent.
"We will be guided by the continent as to what to do next," he told mourners before he left.
