Hence in Latvia, my organization took advantage of that and we to Āraišu lands where there is a full open-air museum complex; a place with history where one of the ancient Latvia´s backgroud is also found. It was a magnificent travel, under my point of view; the bad thing, there was no food for most of the time (until late night) and that you needed a car for going everywhere in Āraišu.
Starting with the open-air village, where each cottage represented the dwelling of some ancient proffessions such the smith, the taylor, the craftsman or the guy who collected the tea (this was serious):
The lovely village and its architecture
And each dwelling with each proffession in it.
Through the visit (which was FREE at all, as this special day always remarks) we could find some interesting handcraft things with kind people explaining all the process for:
sewing the very necessary clother on ancient Latvia...
...and cooking pankukas!
Oh,and yeah, meanwhile, you could enjoy the beautifulness of latvian meadows on spring, where the vivid green of the nature is everywhere:
Ok, so next we headed to the "girl´s island" which, not exactly what anyone could think, is rather a small peninsula surrounded by the waters of the swamp where a pre-historic representation settlement where you could see how the first people lived in, subsisting from fishing and using wood for basically build anything (this has prevailed until present day):
Such the toys...
...the houses...
...and for sure...
...the shoes!
Then, it came the visit to the windmill, as times goes on. The windmill was a cute building made of, guess it, wooden! in the top of a hill where peculiar tools and utilities and other more leisure things made of wood were exposed to see and enjoy.
Check out that Latvia´s map.
Close to the windmill there was also a wooden tent, which was used in past as a way of kitchen; there, you could cook something where the smoke went up from the top which was a chimney:
The tent...
...and some tools for using when cooking. Notice the symbology on some of them.
And finally, the coming to the church, where a concert with a typical instrument, the kokļu. This was the best part for me; and warming, it was getting cold by the way.
I leave a video from a song of the concert. Cute and haunted words, aren´t they?
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