So having walked one of the best walk I’ve done, what to do next. Surely it would be a lesser walk, or maybe so,ething that doesn’t impress anywhere near as much as the previous day. Seceda was still very much in the memory and those ridgeline views imprinted on the brain. Prior to heading out to Italy I’d looked at walks, naturally, but not knowing our abilities in this area, had meant I’d erred on the side of safety. But one walk kept coming up, described as family friendly, easy walking and all year round. A valley walk called Vallunga, which I thought might fit nicely after a week of pounding pavements for 10 miles a day, an 8 mile walk the day before and one we could do again from the door. So we had a lie in, booted up and set off through Selva towards the valley entrance and trail number 14, which heads through the valley and out of the far end, up onto the high plataeu around the Puez Hutte. We walked through the large car park and soon the high cliffs loomed above us, sheer faces of Dolomite rock, jagged peaks with lush meadows and stands of pine in front of us. A gorgeous sight. We walked the path until it opened in a wide meadow, alpine cattle grazed, their bells clanging and echoing around the valley. We walked further in to a second smaller meadow and stopped their for lunch, looking back along the valley and the vertiginous cliffs. To go further would mean a climb, up through more pines of around 400 metres to the moonscape plataeu. We decided it would be a return walk along the valley, its around 3 1/2 miles to the far end as it was and weary legs and feet didn’t need another long day. The return was just as lovely, eyes drawn upwards to the sharp peaks overhead, we again passed the cows and a small chapel before stopping at a hutte at the valley end. Refreshed we walked back into town, stopping for some supplies before heading to the apartment. We headed out for pizza that evening, not as good as the one we had in Bologna, and it was here we really noticed the Austrian influence on the food. That evening huge thunder storms rolled in, lighting up the skies, the next day had a forecast for similar weather, we decided to wait for morning before choosing what to do. Another fantastic walk in the Dolomites and the reviews were right, Vallunga is stunning.