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“Summer is running out and a year goes away … I’m getting big, you know I don’t like it! ” The Righeira sang just like that, in the far-off 1985. I don’t know about you, but to me the eighties seem centuries ago! But punctually in September, to every respectable Italian, this song comes to mind and I noticed that there is no age … even today’s kids know this song! Unfortunately, we have already arrived at the end of this summer, a very hot summer, they say the hottest since 2003 (another year that seems very far away!). What did you do? Where have you been? I went to the sea and then to finish in style, I was in the mountains and as much as I love the sea, this year I particularly loved the mountain. We have been in the Dolomites, in our beloved Alta Badia and like last year, we have chosen the Hotel La Majun, to have the security of being pampered with incredible hospitality, of eating and drinking very well and of feeling at home. Now for me choose to go to Roberta and Natalie, mother and daughter and owners of the Hotel is quite natural, you know how to say it, right? The winning team doesn’t change (another typical thought of an Italian super soccer fan!). For us is the exact same thing. This summer, to our great surprise, we found a Hotel almost totally renovated; in fact, restoration works have been done and in record time! In just over three months they renovated the exterior and added a floor with 8 suites, all fantastic! I could not believe that in such a short time, they could create a practically new hotel; but in Alta Badia this and much more is possible. The new rooms are nothing short of amazing, curious as they are, I wanted to see them all and I could see that each has an incredible view, they are all large and with a breathtaking design. As always, we ate very well and thanks to the cellar of Carlo, Natalie’s father, we drank some excellent wine. I relaxed in their SPA, Nicola and Ginevra played and swam in their pool and in the evening after dinner, we had fun playing all three of them in some boxed game. I love this kind of vacation that reminds me a lot when I was a child and today, like then, we walked a lot during the day and in the evening, we relaxed in the hotel! I believe that Alta Badia in summer is a great choice, but believe me that in addition to the famous winter period, autumn is also a wonderful season to climb high and get lost in those mountains and in those colors, which have been proclaimed among the most beautiful in the world.

Ho una famiglia e un lavoro come quasi tutti voi che mi leggete e come tutti voi, corro dalla mattina alla sera. Non so se questa è la vita che sognavo di fare quando era una bambina, so solo che appoggio la testa sul cuscino ed è settembre, mi sveglio ed è già Natale e quando mi prendo del tempo per pensare a come sia possibile che i mesi passino così in fretta, la maggior parte delle volte non trovo risposta! Quando era ragazzina vivevo molto più intensamente e le giornate mi sembravano mesi; ora tutto vola e a volte penso che sto perdendo molto, forse troppo! Ho deciso di staccare la spina per una settimana ma malata come sono per il lavoro, non avevo voglia di farlo.

Ma vi sembra normale non aver voglia di andare in vacanza perché altrimenti pensi che il tuo lavoro, la tua casa e la tua vita possano crollare? No! Ma ho deciso che dovevo andarci per portare la mia bimba. Ecco che per una serie di coincidenze ho scoperto i Resort della Valamar e poco dopo, avevo una camera prenotata al Marea Suites a Porec in Croazia, dove mi sono recata una settimana con mia madre e la mia bimba. Quanto avessi realmente bisogno di una vacanza l’ho capito solo quando sono stata in quel posto meraviglioso così calmo, tranquillo e bellissimo. Quanto avessi bisogno di stare in silenzio e staccare la spina mi è stato chiaro ad ogni tramonto che mi sono soffermata a guardare.

Mi è stato chiaro nell’ immediato che c’eravamo recate in un piccolo paradiso dove regna la pace e la serenità totale, dove il mondo con i suoi orari e la sua velocità se n’e stava fuori, perché lì funzionava tutto con uno solo tempo: il tuo! Ci hanno accolto come delle principesse e la prima cosa che ho notato è stato che il Resort in ogni angolo era stato arredato in modo che i bambini potessero giocare! La nostra camera era al terzo piano e dal balcone potevamo osservare l’intero Resort: l’hotel completo, le quattro piscine, le varie postazioni prendi sole, il ristorante la spiaggia e quel tramonto che ho ancora negli occhi. Tutto era perfetto.

Appena sistemato i bagagli e capito che anche nella nostra camera da letto la mia bimba aveva il suo letto comodo e dei bellissimi giochi ad attenderla, ci siamo infilate il costume e via alla scoperta della nostra vacanza! Sono state giornate bellissime dove il clima, che in quei giorni in Italia era afoso e torrido lì era più fresco e ventilato e noi abbiamo potuto rilassarci e riposarci in completo benessere; mentre io e mia madre eravamo stese a prendere il sole, Ginevra invece non ha trovato un’attimo di pace, perché c’erano così tante attività per lei che ad ogni ora avrebbe potuto fare qualcosa di diverso. Sicuramente le sono rimasti nel cuore i mitici scivoli nella piscina per bambini, Maro il granchietto simbolo del baby club, i castelli fatti in spiaggia e l’auto galleggiante nella piscina salata.

Per quanto riguarda il servizio di ristorazione del Marea Suites incluso nel pacchetto c’erano la colazione e la cena, mentre per il pranzo ti davano la possibilità di andare al ristorante pagando extra, oppure al bar della hall potevi trovare della frutta secca e varie bevande. La colazione e la cena erano presentati con un ampio e bellissimo buffet. Alla mattina potevi far colazione con tutto ciò che potevi sognare: dal dolce al salato, dalla frutta alle uova e con ogni tipo di bevanda; i cuochi cucinavano al momento su una piastra dalle crepes oppure del balcone; avevi un desiderio particolare? Loro lo esaudivano! La cena era di tipo internazionale, preparata spesso con salse e molto condita, quindi io e mia madre abbiamo quasi sempre mangiato pesce, che era preparato al momento e squisito! Per Ginevra invece c’era una saletta a parte con un buffet a misura di bambino, dove se avesse voluto avrebbe potuto cenare con gli altri bambini. Se questo non bastasse, il ristorante era davanti al mare e la visuale era incantevole. Per quanto riguarda le attività serali, anche in quel caso c’era molta scelta: si poteva andare a visitare città come Porec, dove un trenino a 5 minuti a piedi dell’Hotel ti ci portava e in 10 minuti eri in centro; andare a vedere Rovigno oppure rimanere nei paraggi e farti una camminata in pineta; andare al mini club a due passi dall’ Hotel dove ogni sera c’era uno spettacolo per bambini o decidere di stare nel Resort a goderti un buon cocktail. Per me questa è stata una vacanza in un posto a dir poco bellissima, dove il personale è giovane, dinamico e attento.

L’ordine, la pulizia e la sicurezza regnano sovrani.  Le attività che si possono fare sono molteplici e i genitori con bambini si possono rilassare, perché c’è un servizio di babyclub giornaliero, dove i bambini possono fare diverse attività e sentirsi sempre sicuri. Abbiamo trovato un mare limpido, cieli sereni e aria pulita, confort e tanta bellezza. Una vacanza che consiglio a chi come me ha una vita frenetica e non ha tempo di lasciarsi mai andare al relax totale.

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English

If I think about the year that has just ended, I feel the breath fail and then start again slowly.I don’t know if you happen to think that you are more committed than you could actually do. If you are reduced like me, welcome to the club! It was certainly a very satisfying year from many points of view, but when my mother told me that in life nothing comes to you by chance, now I understand well what she was talking about. I have a family and a job like almost all of you who read me and like you all, I run from morning to night.  I don’t know if this is the life I dreamed of doing when I was a child, I only know that I put my head on the pillow and it’s September, I wake up and it’s Christmas and when I take time to think about how the months can go so fast, most of the time I can’t find the answer! When I was a young girl I lived much more intensely and the days seemed to me months; now everything flies and sometimes I think I’m losing a lot, maybe too much!
I decided to switch off for a week but as sick as I am for work, I didn’t want to do it. But does it seem normal not to want to go on vacation because otherwise you think your work, your home and your life can collapse? No! But I decided that I had to go there to bring my baby. Here for a series of coincidences I discovered the Valamar Resorts and shortly after, I had a room booked at the Marea Suites in Porec in Croatia, where I went a week with my mother and my baby. How much I really needed a vacation I only understood when I was in that wonderful place so calm, peaceful and beautiful. How much I needed to be silent and pull the plug was clear to me at every sunset that I stopped to watch. It was clear to me immediately that we had gone to a small paradise where peace and total serenity reigns, where the world with its schedules and its speed stood out, because everything worked there with only one time: yours! They welcomed us like princesses and the first thing I noticed was that the Resort in every corner had been furnished so that the children could play! Our room was on the third floor and from the balcony we could watch the entire Resort. The complete hotel, the four swimming pools, the various sunbathing areas, the restaurant, the beach and the sunset that I still have in my eyes. As soon as we packed up our luggage and realized that even in our bedroom my little girl had her comfortable bed and beautiful games waiting for her, we slipped on our costume and set off to discover our vacation! They were beautiful days where the climate, which in those days in Italy was sultry and torrid, was cooler and more windy and we were able to relax and rest in complete well-being; while my mother and I were stretched out to sunbathe, Ginevra instead didn’t find a moment of peace, because there were so many activities for her that at any time she could have done something different. Surely the mythical slides in the children’s pool have remained in her heart, Maro the little crab symbol of the baby club, the castles made on the beach and the car floating in the salt pool. As for the Marea Suites restaurant service included in the package there was breakfast and dinner, while for lunch they gave you the possibility of going to the restaurant paying extra, or at the lobby bar you could find dried fruit and various drinks. Breakfast and dinner were presented with a large and beautiful buffet. In the morning you could have breakfast with everything you could dream of: from sweet to savory, from fruit to eggs and with every type of drink; the cooks cooked at the time on a plate from the crepes or the bacone; did you have a particular desire? They granted it! For Ginevra instead there was a separate room with a child-friendly buffet, where if she wanted she could have dinner with the other children. If this were not enough, the restaurant was facing the sea and the view was lovely. As for the evening activities, even in that case there was a lot of choice: you could go to visit cities like Porec, where a train 5 minutes on foot from the Hotel would take you there and in 10 minutes you were in the center; go see Rovinj or stay nearby and take a walk in the pine forest; or stay nearby and take a walk in the pine forest; go to the mini club a stone’s throw from the Hotel where every evening there was a show for children or decide to stay in the Resort to enjoy a good cocktail. For me this was a holiday in a place that was nothing short of beautiful, where the staff is young, dynamic and attentive. Order, cleanliness and security reign supreme. The activities that can be done are manifold and parents with children can relax, because there is a daily babyclub service, where children can do different activities and always feel safe. We found a clear sea, clear skies and clean air, comfort and so much beauty. A vacation that I recommend to people like me who have a busy life and don’t have time to let themselves go to total relaxation.