Simple Living in a Rustic Hut in the Austrian Alps
4 Video Views·Oct 10, 2025
We spent time in a rustic Austrian mountain hut at 2000m - with a wood stove, no internet, and breathtaking Alpine views. 🏔️
This trip was pure Hüttenromantik and brought back childhood memories of summers in the Alps and my love for Heidi. Sharing it with my family made it even more special. 💛
If you’ve ever dreamed of simple mountain life, this is for you! Would you stay in a hut like this? Let me know in the comments
When I was a kid, I remember the story of Heidi,
the girl that spent summers with her grandfather
up in the Austrian Alps.
And we did actually spend a summer there
and I always wanted to go back and experience it.
So a few years ago, we did find this perfect cabin or hut
up on a mountain meadow.
And I always wanted to go back
where the life is a lot simpler,
where you listen to cowbells and cows grazing
on rich mountain meadows and pastures
and where life is just really simple.
And in this video, I wanna take you along
to this experience that has been so meaningful to me.
Everything is just so beautiful and simple.
All you need is some clean water that keeps running down
from mountain springs right into this trough
right in front of the cabin.
Mornings are always different and misty often,
but once you get up, you don't press a button.
You actually have to slow down
and do it like it used to be many decades
or maybe even centuries ago.
We love this wood stove that you need to light a fire.
It's actually not very cold here in this cabin in October,
but you still need to light a fire
before you can even do anything,
before you can have your first cup of coffee.
And it reminds you of what modern convenience
we have these days and how we simply just press a button
and we can even set a timer and we get up
and we might even have our coffee all ready to go.
This life here reminds you that it used to be different.
And oftentimes we don't even know how to light a fire.
And even though this stove is extremely well-built
and we believe it's some 200 years old,
it works surprisingly well.
But you have to acquire some skills
and you have to learn your craft a little bit
and figure out how to do things.
But it is actually surprisingly satisfying.
And again, I love slowing down and savoring the moment,
smelling the scent of coffee permeating through the hut
before I can even really enjoy my first cup of coffee.
But when I do, I just absolutely love it.
And it's almost like an accomplishment,
like something you have done
before you even did anything else during the day.
And of course, yes, there is the coffee,
the modern convenience,
and not having to get up at 4.30 in the morning
and maybe even tending to cows.
But this is the life that I feel like every so often
we have to go back to.
It is a simple life with very few conveniences.
And again, you actually get down to what's most important.
Most important, I feel like is spending time with family,
being healthy, eating nourishing food,
and being intentional about what you're doing,
about your life, your conveniences,
and every so often just reflecting on
what life is really about
and what really matters most in life.
And again, it is a simple life
with hanging laundry out in the sun,
but it actually smells really good.
However, I love to explore the nature around the cabin
and picking some wildflowers,
which are so many there, every different type of flower,
and arranging them into a bunch of flowers to decorate.
It's a way to bring the nature inside
and to create a little bit of beauty
in this otherwise very simple
and rustic and minimalistic cabin.
This is also a habit of taking your shoes off outside,
leaving the outside world outside,
and honoring the life inside the cabin.
It's a simple, like I said, 200-year-old cabin,
but it is absolutely beautiful.
And with some flowers, it's a lot more pleasing to the eye.
Again, life is very simple.
We sometimes forget how it used to be
that we didn't have modern convenience,
we didn't have electricity,
we couldn't just plug things into the wall
and make everything happen at the snap of a finger,
but actually slowing down
and knowing what you're doing in the moment
with very little that there is.
The nature around the cabin is just absolutely stunning,
and I love to explore it.
I love to go with the seasons
to follow the cows on the mountain meadows.
And I have to say that I am a little bit glad
I'm not one of those shepherds that had to milk the cows
and then either make cheese right on the mountain
or carry the milk all the way down to the village
because there's nothing you can really do
with the milk and the cheese all the way up there.
Even though this is late September, early October,
I was absolutely amazed that there is still so much going on
and these are blueberries.
And the more time you take and the more you look,
the more you find.
And we went and started picking blueberries.
These are small, wild blueberries,
not the big ones you buy in the store
that are not very flavorful, really, honestly,
and are just big,
and they're not even really all that juicy,
but these ones, they're small, they're flavorful,
they're absolutely delicious.
And the more I looked,
the more I just kept on getting my hunting instinct going
or my gathering instinct, rather.
And yes, we're not the only ones
who are enjoying blueberries up in these regions.
It is an area of absolutely stunning beauty
and cultural heritages,
and just so worth exploring and spending your time in
and just being out in nature in the green and moving.
Yes, we are going for a lot of hikes up steep mountains.
We did get some sore muscles
when we were hiking up some pretty tall mountains,
but every view just reminds you
of how small we as people are
and how sometimes almost immaterial our problems are
because a lot of them are self-made
and don't really have to be.
And when you're up there, it is so majestic
and you're so small amongst all this.
Again, back to the simple life in a warm cabin
with a good fire going in the wood stove.
And it actually is almost a little bit too warm
in the living room, in that living area.
Then it is too cold, which makes it so cozy
and perfect for cooking for family
and enjoying really good hearty food.
When the days draw to a close, you just feel satisfied.
Your soul is satisfied, your heart is satisfied,
and you have just done really good work
and basically went back down to the basics in the evening,
preparing for a very good night's sleep in a very cozy bed.
I hope that you enjoyed this video.
Let me know if you have any comments or questions.
Thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you in the next video.