3 Months Living in a malga in the Middle of the Mountains! Part Two - Life in the Malga + The Mountains and the Forest!

This is the continuation of my last post - 3 Months Living in a malga in the Middle of the Mountains! Part 1 - The House and The Animals about last summer where we lived in this malga in the middle of the Dolomites mountains.

My son Willow playing with the ice cold water from the mountains!

As I described in the last post; a malga is basically where the cows go to graze in the summer and the house is where the people taking care of the cows lives. Sometimes it will also have more animals, make cheese or butter or, as in this case, have a restaurant.

We stayed here the summer, because my partner Roberto, who is a chef, got a job here, and me and Willow were aloud to stay here along with him for free :)

Roberto in front of the malga

As last time I showed and told a bit about the house and the animals living there for the summer with us, this time I want to take you along in the beautiful surroundings and stunning views from this place!

Afternoon view from our window after the sun had left our spot

Before we go outside, i also want to share a little photo of the kitchen, with the ricotta getting smoked over the fire (on the shelf under the roof)

Willow with his bucket :)

So now, let us go for a little walk :)

One of my favorite thing with living in this place, was that there were so incredibly many options to go hiking or walking! Normally, when going out of the door, you usually have two options to walk; up the street or down the street, and then the typical road to get out of town, or away from the road you see all the time..
But here, going out of the door, there are 180 degrees of options! Up towards the high mountains, down towards the river, up to that forest part or along the track or follow the stream, or, or, or! I don't even think I went all the ways possible!

And even though, let's see if I even manage to put in here just the best photos of all the relatively short walks I did - Having a two year old with me all the time, meant that we didn't always get that far ;D

Also beauty in the small things!

And back inside on a cold day

And the sun came out again!

Me in our room, looking out the window:

The view from the window (in one direction ;D )

This guy was offering authentic horse rides to and from the malga

And here I found a picture too from inside our room. Small. Simple. What else do you need?

sunset on the mountains with the moon (which is never as photogenic as the mountains ;)

Oh yeah, I want to mention too that of course we had no TV here and there was only one spot where the phones had reception!:

A little bit more of animals ;D

And this is how it looked when the restaurant was full:

(tiring ;)

And when the rain suddenly came, everybody went inside!:

Or wherever there was cover!:

Out again in the forest with bare feet:

And up to the high mountains (only 20 minutes from the malga)

Even Willow was excited!

Especially for these! ;D

Papà in the kitchen:

I did a few small jobs too, as painting the sign for the cakes and daily menu and this Dog Bar(k) (a bark is a small shed in the local dialect)

And finally we get to the end with a last photo of the morning sun in late August!

And if you ever find yourself in the Italian Alps and want to visit this place, you can find it right here!: https://goo.gl/maps/dTM1z97U8gM2

Thank you for stopping by! <3 And PS - So excited to have reached 500 followers! Thank you!!