Another Beautiful Chapter Finished

Hello dear all,

It is hard to believe that in few days I will be leaving MoaAlm, mountain retreat that I have been calling home for the past year.

It is hard to believe that is the end somehow.

This place is so special and some of you who came to visit me experienced it. I still cannot believe the whole year passed. It's been such a wondeful ride. With ups and downs, with laughs and pains, with joy, with many new lessons, new friends, new family.

Cooking vegan food and inspiring people to make positive chnages in their lifestyles has been one of the highs. Lots of new faces, great friendships, amazing adventures, snowboarding, sledging, hiking, swimming- my life has been really spoiled with comfort!

I am so grateful for this beautiful place and I am a little bit sad about leaving it. I feel that I will come back one day but who knows where the next adventure is waiting for me.

I really got used to wake up each morning and see those glorious mountains with snow peaks around. I have been spoiled to live by the highest peak in Austria- beautiful Grossglockner. I have been spoiled to eat like a queen and let my creativity unfold in the kitchen. I have been spoiled with people around me- who accepts me the way I am-sometimes a bit weird or crazy, loud and in love with so many things around me. I have been spoiled with deer and marmottes as my only neighbours around. I have been spoiled for so many things, but the good thing with getting a bit older is that you realise it more. Not when you are in a death bed turning the pages of your photo album but actually in the present time.

Catching the beauty in the present time is my natural high. It gives me hope, it gives me inspiration and it gives me a sense of freedom.

I am feeling pretty emotional, like with all my places that I have called home. But in the same time I feel ready for  new adventures.

This week me, Lottie and Ryan with their dog Szuka will be getting on our bicycles and starting the bicycle tour around Austria. Since we can't leave Austria due to Corona madness we decided to have a bit of a challenge and explore the country on our bikes.

So send good vibes for our trip and perhaps I'll make some more blog posts or even little videos to catch out bike tour vibes.

Miss you a lot!!!! <3

Blue Skies, Crispy Air, White Peaks and All That Jazz

Servus,

At the moment I am living in the nature paradise. Call me lucky, brave, adventurous, crazy or all that but somehow I get to call these places home so often.

Some people are chasing careers, fame, family matters, money and so on. I feel like I am chasing the most beautiful spots in the world. And not just to buy a postcard and send to a friend, but actually become a part of that postcard.

The nomadic life that I lead rewards my eyes and my soul. But from time to time I forget to appreciate all that beauty around.

That nagging routine always gets me spoiled. I forget to look around, breath in and out.

Now close your eyes. I want to take you to my world.

Imagine majestic white snow peaks around you, some pine forests, icy cold river nearby and then on one hill, tucked away, remote and out of that buzzing civilization we created there stands a house. A slackline outside. Hot tub, some trees. No cars, no traffic, not even a neighbour around. Just a house. And in that house a kitchen, equiped to cater vegan feasts. A storeroom full of toys- skis, snowboards, ropes, climbing gear and all the fun activities you can think of while living in the mountains. A yoga room that doesn't need any artificial pictures of some majestic nature, all is just there, right through the windows.

Imagine being in that house. You wake up and the first thing you see is 3 deers outside, right in your garden. Just walking undisturbed.

Imagine some snow storms and everywhere you look is white and cold. But you are warm. Sitting cosy wrapped up in a blanket with a cup of tea and watching nature being wild and powerful.

To me, it's my reality. Constelations of stars, tranquility, pure unstimulated life.

We do pay the cost for such beauty. But it's worth it.

I am extremely lucky to be living here.

Don't forget where you live. Don't forget to look around.

with snow and love,

Ligita

stolen pic from Becca

and another one

and another one

and another one, ha

Magic Believer

Servus!

I believe in magic. I believe in synchronicity, in things that meant to happen, in universe power and mystic unexplained stories. Without those beliefs my life would lose it's charm. I am that kind of person who likes to connect things and not call them coinsidences. If I meet a person that I know on the other side of the globe, it's not a coincidence for me, it definitely has more meaning than that.

I also like from time to time to reflect on where I am and retrack my life journey.

Since young age I always have been a person who likes trying new things, very curious about a lot of stuff. So when I left school and went exploring the world, I often found myself asking what is that makes me happy, what job, what activity that makes me want to wake up in the morning and do it. A lot of wise travellers always assured me that it is ok not to know what you want, as long as you keep on trying and keep on learning. I really believed them.

And then slowly I started to pick hobbies, activities and jobs that really made my life colourful and interesting.

When I left Sark nearly a year ago, I was quite confused and lost. And I often get these lost moments, I think they are pretty normal. I got a chalet host job quickly afterwards, without even knowing that I actually will be cooking, funny! As if Universe got something planned for me. I enjoyed it and then, again, very randonmly, I got another job, this time cooking the food that fits my moral and ethical standards.

So now I am actually getting paid to cook and experiment with plant based food. I am getting an opportunity to inspire more people and question meat and dairy industries. And I don't even need to go and protest or do other type of plant based lifestyle encouregemnet actions ( don't get me wrong, it's very very important too!). I can use my creativity in the kitchen and then enjoy it together with guests who perhaps later make changes in their lifes.

Now when I look back quite many years ago, I wouldn't have imagined doing such a job. And I am not saying that I reached the peak and now I just gonna do it all my life. No, I just really believe that without looking and exploring, I probably wouldn't be where I'm now. And all the little things that happened in my life are truly magical.

I keep on meeting so many wonderful people that keep on inspiring me a letting me grow. Feeling completely grateful for all of that.

Let everybody create magic in this world.

Sending love from high mountains,

Ligita

beautiful beautiful mountains

home sprouted lentils and courgette salad

Aubergine filled with buckwheat and seasonal veg sauce

Lemon tumeric cheesecake

I'm still obsessed with mandalas!

cool house

amazing Weissensee lake

Alpine strawberries!

ha, selfie in the forest!

i love those lights!

something magical about pine trees

Nettle soup with home made oatcakes. My colleagues Becca's photo. She is so good!

Sweet potato spinach paties with beetroot ketchup. Again Becca's photo

Berries and rhubarb crumble with home made strawberry nice cream. Becca's photo. You can tell, ha!