More photos from Andalo

View over Cavedago near Andalo where we walked one day.

Forest park, an adventure park where Sofia and Daniele had a lot of fun.

This was a scary walk. On our way to Croz Altissimo. I don´t know if I had let me convince to walk there if I had knowned what kind of path I had to walk with a four-year-old child and our old dog... We never seemed to arrive to the "rifugio". Luckily enough we didn´t have to walk the same way away from there.

After all the walking Carlotta deserved a little train ride around the Lake of Andalo!

The Lake of Molveno with its ice cold water

This was a very little selection of all our photos from Andalo. I think the whole family wants to go back there or some where else in the mountains next year!

A week in the mountains

Time for an update! It has been a busy period with all kinds of shows in the children's schools, work, getting ready for a show jumping competition and then we spent a week walking, eating and relaxing up in the Dolomites. It was our first holiday in the mountains during summer time and it definitely won't be the last one! It was a lovely experience. Armando decided he didn't want to listen to the children quarrelling and fighting for 7 hours, so we left Rome at 11 in the evening and he drove the whole night. Actually, it was a good solution, because there was no traffic and no complaining about the sun shining or other things in the car, all three children slept almost all the time. We got to Andalo early in the morning, had breakfast at a cafè and then went to the hotel and our room was ready for us, so we could rest a little bit.

The first day the weather was Ok, then the next day it rained all day, but the rest of the week it was perfect. The sun was shining, but it wasn't too warm, so we were able to be outside as much as we wanted and we really walked a lot. Maybe, if I hadn't been eating so much I could have lost some weight too... On the rainy day we went to an indoor swimming pool and in the evening when it didn't rain so much anymore, me, Daniele, Carlotta and Milla took a walk to the sports center in Andalo.

The view from our hotel on the rainy morning... and the view from the hotel room next morning

We spent the whole day out walking up and up and up and down and down and down. First we came to the farm Malga Tovre where we got a good glass of fresh milk and a nice rest looking at the cows and the donkeys.

Hard to choose from all the photos when I took about 800 during our week there.... More in my next post!

Summer is here

It seems that summer is here, very late this year. As it has been raining a lot, our garden is very green and now it's the perfect time to spend some time there before it gets too hot!

Confirmation and dressage competition

Time for an update of what we have been doing lately! First of all two weeks ago we went on our friends' sons confirmation. They got confirmated in different churches, but celebrated together afterwards with a very nice lunch in a lovely restaurant. We had a good time and their relatives from Finland and Sweden were so nice. The weather was rainy in the morning when we got to the church, but then it stopped, luckily.

The boys, Alessio and Marco before lunch
Carlotta and Sofia in front of the table where the starters were served

There was a play ground and a football field and luckily the sun started shining, so after lunch the children could play outside. Daniele and Marco going towards the football field


Carlotta and the flowers. She loves flowers!

Last week-end me and Sofia participated in a dressage competition together with Sofias friends. It was very exciting and we had a good time! More photos on my horse blog.

This is Sofia and her friend Alice with the pony Kenny before the competition.

May day

Horse friends

What a lovely week-end we had. On the first of May we went to the mountains in Ovindoli and had a nice day out with friends. The weather was fantastic and everything was green. We had a good meal at a trattoria and then we went out on a horse ride and Carlotta rode a small pony called Azzurra. Afterwards our friends invited us to their house in a small village called Luco dei Marsi and we stayed there and had an other nice meal and chatted till it was time to get back to Rome again. Lots of eating, laughing and fresh air - is there anything better than that?

Ice cream seller or Princess

Carlotta wants to be an ice cream seller or a princess or both when she grows up.

Pick-nick

First pick nick together with friends this spring. We met in a popular pick-nick area, at the sanctuary of Divino Amore where lots of Romans go pick-nicking. The weather was beautiful and I regretted having put my jeans on, because it got really warm in the sun! It had been raining for the last two days, but now that the sun was shining, the grass was dry again. First in the morning me and Sofia went on our riding lesson, came home to have a shower, packed the last things and then the whole family went off to meet our friends at the pick-nick area. So nice to have a glass of wine, sun and good company after the sweaty riding lesson!
We all enjoyed it. We all are Swedish-Italian and Finnish-Italian families and the children have known each other since they were born, so it's really nice to get together once in a while!

Armando taking a nap and the boys playing football

Part of the group. A few of them (one of them my husband) inside the car listening to the football games.