Before the trip - enjoying July #1 - escaping the heat to beautiful Engadin

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It is June 21st and I'm back home from my last day at work. I gave myself one whole month before having to move out of my apartment so I could enjoy the summer and take my time to prepare my move and my trip.

I check the weather forecast for the coming week: 39 degrees in Basel! I know myself and I know I am no good with these temperatures. The first thing I think of: escaping the heat and reaching the fresh air of the mountains. Indeed, in places like Saas-Fee and St-Moritz, the temperature is announced to be 26 degrees, on the same day it is supposed to be 39 degrees in Basel. I am now even more drawn to the freshness of the mountains! Graubünden and more precisely Engadin it is, a place I have never been to yet, and where my friend Caroline lives part time.

2 days in St Moritz and 3 days in Pontresina. I really fall in love with the area, especially Pontresina, a place surrounded by mountains and the forest that smells so good of 'Swiss stone pine' (Arve). The healing power of this aroma has been proven and there are even pillows that are made out of this!

Lej da Staz

Hike starting from Muottas Muragl up to Lej Muragl, so beautiful!




The place is so beautiful and calming that I stay an extra night on my own, in the middle of the mountain in the mountain hotel Roseg. Highly recommended! If you like to ride horses, Gina's Reitschule was a perfect place to go on a horseback riding hike. From what I saw the horses are happy and well taken care of. No pictures of the hike on the horse, all in my memory ;-)



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Location: 7504 Pontresina, Switzerland

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