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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Ballenberg 7

Un exemple des beaux bâtiments - on approchait la fin de la deuxième journée et ça stressait un peu.
Some of the beautiful buildings. At this stage we were drawing the the close of the second day, and starting to stress about all the things we hadn't yet seen!

Un coin bricolage, il y avait un profil de bois en forme de Suisse. Il fallait scier, poncer, percer et poinçonner.
A craft session. They had a wooden bar in the shape of Switzerland. You had to cut off a slice, sand it, drill it, and mark it.

On voyait partout des enfants qui se promenait avec leur collier/médaillon en bois.
There were kids all over the place walking around with their wooden 'medallions'.

Les filles ont pu s'essayer au tricot.
The girls tried a bit of knitting too.

Quelques photos des intérieurs de maison.
Here's a few photos of inside one of the houses.

Quelque part, voir la pauvreté et le travail incessant nécessaire au survie m'a un peu fait passer la nostalgie de cet époque que je n'ai jamais vécu.
Seeing the living conditions and being reminded of the grinding poverty and many hours of hard work just to make ends meet kind of put a dent in my hazy nostalgia for this bygone era (that I've never directly experienced).

En revanche, sur place on a rencontré un grandpère qui disait le contraire. Il a vécu cet époque, et la visite à Ballenberg lui donnait la nostalgie de ce temps plus simple, où les gens étaient plus proches de la nature, et des un des autres.
Interestingly we got to chatting with an old chap while we were there, who said quite the opposite. Visiting Ballenberg made him nostalgic about past times, when life was simpler, and people were closer to nature and to each other.

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