The following day, Friday 15th June, we declared a rest day, and this turned out to be very rainy. Diana wanted to explore Furtwangen and we had a look at the shops and the clock museum, and did a bit of shopping in Neukauf, then went home on the bus. So this set of pictures relates to Saturday 16th June, when we set out to visit the Vogtsbauernhof. This is an open-air museum, a collection of Black Forest houses brought from all over the area, representing different time periods and different geographic conditions. Wolf and I found it fascinating when we discovered it, we saw it from the train and asked what was the old village. So I was keen to show it to Diana. We found a Saturday Farmers' Market going on in Furtwangen but were not able to take advantage of it, being at the start of our day.

Farmers' market

            approaching the bus stop                                                                                  waiting at the bus stop

We got the bus to Triberg and then another bus direct to the Vogtsbauernhof. You can get the train to Hausach and walk, but this is quicker in the long run.

(left) A Boadicea-like carving      (right) One of the Black Forest houses - these are completely open for the public to walk around and explore, they have furniture of the period, and this time there were workshops and people in costume inside making and explaining things - whether this was because it was Saturday, or if this now happens every day of the week, I don't know, it wasn't happening when we were there in earlier years.

Ladies making 1) woven bands and 2) the special headdresses worn by young girls at feast day parades

Moving day - taking it all by cart (model)                                                 A bedroom

Girls wearing the cherry hats

When we got home, there was an approaching conjunction of Venus and Moon. We were hoping to see the closer conjunction the following night, but it was too rainy and clouds covered the sky. We caught them the night after, when Moon had passed Venus, and you will see this picture later on.

http://www.vogtsbauernhof.org/