Mountain stories – the Valsegg Blog

Packet soup? Never in a million years! Grandma Paula uses all the tinned food in the bag anyway. Here in the mountains, we have many ways of preserving our summer happiness until well into the winter.

Have you got everything, including the binoculars? Then you're ready to go! Listen, the forest is already waking up. Close your eyes for a moment. How many bird calls can you hear?

The mountain air is said to make you fitter, more beautiful, healthier and more efficient. Here you can read why a hiking holiday is so healthy. Extra: Our 3 best tips for your high-altitude hike in the Valler Valley.

We could actually just send our guests out into the forest to eat. After all, all kinds of green delicacies, real vitamin bombs and surprising culinary delights grow out there.

She is a real multi-talent, our Jana. We are delighted that our persuasion finally bore fruit and that she agreed to a short interview.

New year, new luck. New brooms sweep well. The beginning is half the battle. Shuffle the cards. Are these hackneyed phrases or true words? We think so: We don't have to reinvent the wheel in January, but a fresh start is sometimes a good thing.

It's as if someone has spilt liquid gold high up in the kingdom of heaven. If you've ever been out at the edge of the forest at dawn, you'll know what we mean.

If you think that in winter wine only tastes good from hot cups and with a tonne of sugar and spices, we have to disappoint you. At Valsegg, we like to do wine tasting the good, classic way during the cold season. We think so: The coolness and crystal-clear air after a fresh snowfall sharpens the senses and makes them particularly receptive to the complex flavours of a wine.

Zero-kilometre fruit and hand-picked herbs. Home-baked sweet sins and hearty traditional delicacies from the smokehouse. We at Valsegg love our food and are only too happy to share it with you.

"Nature helps me with my work," Lisa always says. As a massage therapist and expert in everything that does you good and makes you beautiful(er), she can draw on a wealth of experience here on the edge of the forest in Vals.

Dip your little toe in or jump in headfirst? Take a leisurely swim or have a water fight in the best pirate style? In and around our chalet village of Valsegg there are countless refreshing opportunities for swimming, diving and cooling off. We have summarised our top 5 for you.

Melodious birdsong and a gentle ray of sunlight falling through the gap in the curtain. An aura of peace and a silence that still makes you believe in miracles ... Don't worry, we are not addicted to the kitsch of home novels, but this is exactly how and not differently our breakfast fairies experience their work day after day. It's enough to make you jealous, isn't it? But also, the person for whom our mountain breakfast is intended is a real lucky devil. And there are three good reasons for that.

In spring, we give nature a helping hand. To ensure that everything in our forest grows and thrives as it should, we spend a lot of time in March and April with saw, axe, wheelbarrow and shovel. It's exhausting but wonderful work!

Sometimes in life you make a decision and the next moment you're a little taken aback by your own daring. But as the saying goes?

The last biscuits have been eaten, the empty champagne bottles disposed of in the bottle bank and the relatives back where they belong: At home. When the Christmas holidays and New Year's Eve are history, it's time to turn over a new leaf.

We humans have it so good! Sub-zero temperatures, little sun and dense snow flurries can do us little harm. After all, there is electric light, heating and down jackets. And so we can enjoy winter in the mountains to the full.

Sometimes it seems as if Mother Nature knows exactly what we need. Now, in autumn, she gives us another rich gift.

Life may not always be a pony farm. But sometimes we here at Valsegg are quite envious of our farm animals. Because here they are allowed to do whatever they want all day long. C

Our motto is: Keep calm! Because when, if not on holiday, is it time to let your soul dangle, relax and sleep in.

Sometimes splashing quietly, sometimes roaring. But always steadily and inexorably, the water from the mountain heights makes its way underground through our forest.