Wonderfully beautiful! We can't help but stand there with our mouths wide open and admire the freshly fallen snow splendour in Alta Badia. In everyday life, there is often little time to appreciate the small, big wonders of nature. But a holiday like this is an excellent opportunity to take a closer look.

Today I felt you again for the first time. Very lightly and quietly, you crept into my morning and swept the heat of summer from my soul with your wind chill. It's so nice to have you with me again. You let me breathe a sigh of relief.

For us it is the most beautiful language in the world. A heritage that we always carry on our tongues like our hearts. Badiot, ladin de mesa val or marô is the dialect of Val Badia, one of the six language variants of Dolomite Ladin. 

Draw from the full. Savor the good life with all your senses. Be in the mood for pleasure from head to toe. A vacation is the time to really indulge yourself. Everyday life can make room. This creates space. For wonderful experiences that burn deep into your soul. For moments that will stay with you for a long time.

A handful of sentences are enough to make a friend for life, they say. Perhaps you would enjoy learning a few phrases in Ladin before your next holiday in the Lagació? 

Billion dollar industry or path to enlightenment? Spiritually charged gimmick or secret weapon for a healthy life? We won't be able to answer the question of what exactly yoga is here; far cleverer people will cut their teeth on it. One thing is certain: modern yoga with its physical and breathing exercises does something to us humans.

It should be in the eye of the beholder and (depending on who you ask in which epoch of human history) a virtue worth striving for or an expression of excessive self-centredness:

There are wicked tongues that claim that a certain Mr Kellogg is to blame for breakfast being described as the most important meal of the day. Here and now it should not matter whether one is more inclined to believe producers of breakfast cereals or modern fitness gurus who are increasingly speaking out against a meal in the morning.

It has always been the kitchen: since time immemorial, family ties have been cultivated, new friendships forged, stories told and body and soul nourished around the hearth and its modern-day descendants.

Excessive affluence. Softener for the character. Doomed spawn of decadence. Or yet a timelessness that transcends fashion? Anyone who thinks about the concept of luxury - as we do here - quickly realises how divided opinions are. One thing is beyond question: no sooner had human societies formed than luxury entered the world stage. 

Get out of the daily grind. Into Alta Badia. Get on the e-bike saddle. And then: pure freedom. Give your soul a good dose of tailwind and "experience" the magical mountain world of the Dolomites almost effortlessly. Just like our team.