Three months ago, 50-year-old Manuela Ferri was a physiotherapist living in the Italian city of Vicenza. Now, she is the manager of a remote mountain lodge in the country’s Trento region. Manuela and her husband have taken over the running of Rifugio Peller, swapping lives full of cars and chaos for clean air and staggering scenery. For Manuela, it is the dream of a lifetime, but it also comes with a lot of work and adjusting to a new way of life. Here’s what it’s like to spend a summer at a rifugio – a rustic mountain hotel with simple accommodation and a restaurant – 2,000 metres above sea l…
