All fairytales have similar beginnings and the ends, but our fairytale is different. That’s why we wanted to share it with you. Not just to tell you our story, but to let you experience the magic in your own way. That’s how the idea of the Mountain Fairytale and Jela and Smreka was born, and four and a half years later, Tisa and Borovica joined them.
Dear guests, start writing your own fairytale in one of our holiday homes.
Our story, our fairytale
I absolutely love the snow. For years after our first child was born, our little girl, there was no snow in the city where we live. Obviously, I was disappointed, as I wanted her to experience the joy of the snow. This encouraged my husband and me to start looking for a piece of land in part of Croatia with more snow, in the hopes that we could build a holiday house there. The region of Gorski Kotar was a logical solution. A beautiful mountain area not far from Zagreb and close to Adriatic coast as well.
We searched for some time but had no luck finding the magical place that we envisaged. And then, while I was in the hospital maintaining my second pregnancy, my husband called to say that he found the perfect place. He sent me some photos, I immediately loved it, and with that, we bought this piece of land. By the end of 2011, our holiday house was complete and four of us moved in.
Then it finally came! The first winter. It was magical. We travelled to our mountain fairytale every weekend. This holiday house built in the mountain style, with a fireplace and lots of, lots of snow became our second home.
When spring arrived, the snow melted away and revealed a new magic of the surrounding area that we didn’t know about. Just across the street, we could enter the forest and walk through endless forest paths, inhale the nature and hear the voice of the forest. We could feel the forest. It was yet another purely magical experience. We wanted to explore more, so we bought bicycles and started to go deeper and deeper into the forest and discover more and more.
We fell in love, not just with our new home, but with everything around it and life there as such. We kept telling our family and friends about how impressed we are with Gorski Kotar. We wanted to share our second home with others so we invited them all to stop by and visit us.
I can’t say for sure if it was because of the happiness and peace we felt there, but we decided to have one more child. Our second son was born in 2013. The time that the five of us spent in our second home and in the nature that surrounds it became priceless.
Now the children have grown up and have other interests, but my husband and I still wait for the first snow every winter as if we have never seen it. Every spring we happily walk through the forest as if we had never walked those paths. Every summer we discover new hiking trails and fill our hearts and memories with wonderful sights. We are very happy that we have a place where we can hide from everyday life and where we can live our fairytale. And sometimes, all our children join us and that’s when we are the happiest.
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