last year my family and i made a summer trip to the highly recommendable open air museum in neusath-perschen. little villages representing various periods of the upper palatinate farming life are set in a wonderful landscape with small woods, large ponds, vast fields and old cottage gardens. you can also visit a mill, a beautifully painted tiny chapel, a beer garden where you can eat sourdough bread with fresh butter and chives – it feels like you're walking through ancient times. everything seems so natural, so peaceful and exactly at its right place. and although i know how hard it would have been living back then, it's not easy going back to our highly-paced lifestyle either. i wish we would appreciate a much more simple and less technic-oriented way of living sometimes...
don't forget to slow down a little bit once in a while!