A visit to Hessenpark

Although it is very difficult to take a day off from school in Germany, Alice was able to spend the Monday with us! The two Dads were at work so the two Mums took us to see Alice's school and then on to an historical town called Hessenpark - Madeleine says, "It's just like the Jindera Museum but bigger."

Morningtea fresh from the Hessenpark Bakery

The weather was once again nothing like our summers! One minute we were warm, the next cold and the next wet!! Even though it rained it didn't dampen our fun.
The park is an open-air museum demonstrating the way life was for people over the last 400 years.
We were able to walk in and around homes with pretty gardens.....

A vegetable patch - they gather the vegetables to eat but also harvest flowers and mud to use  in their dying workshop

Church with a cemetery

....a few different Churches, one which had a cemetery in the garden, a Postoffice with a collection of old telephones (Mum and Benedetta needed to teach us how to use them!), a windmill, a workshop of a stonemason,

...a beautiful old barn which housed a weaver who was actually using two of the looms that are kept there......

Here the weaver is repairing a broken thread

This loom is being used to make a scarf - they sell all the items they make 

The lady is weaving a length of fabric

.....and a man who was using flowers and a mud/wax mix to dye fabric a beautiful blue colour.
There was a schoolroom,

Our classrooms don't look like this!

and a number of sheds keeping old re-claimed timbers, window frames and slabs of stone out of the weather. They use all these to rebuild and renovate.

Feeding baby brown lambs.

After walking around the museum for most of the day we headed back to Alice's house and played with her wombats.

Tomorrow we travel to Berlin on yet another train!