Off the coast of Estonia is an historic island, in which the few inhabitants carefully preserve their lands and culture, and visitors like us come to see them.
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| One takes the ferry across. |
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| Ferryboat in distance |
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| "We live here, so stay on the paths, be quiet, and remember that this is a living place." |
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| This is a sleigh in the rafters of an old barn turned handcrafts shop. |
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| A special craft of the area using small rounds of branches to make mosaic forms. |
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| A local lady (more on which in a subsequent post) does marvellous embroidery work. This island also has its own knitting patterns for woollens. |
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| They lived by fishing primarily and farming secondarily. |
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| This place is for sale so we took a look around inside - not to buy, to see the old farm. |
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| All the doors were extremely low for people and animals. Maybe it was to keep the winter out....? |
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| Other people were looking too. |
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| Outside |
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| Inside |
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| Every farm had its own blacksmith shop. |
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| Those racks were for drying fish. |
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| Guess... I don't know either... |
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| The fishing gear |
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| A mix for fishing and farming: bobbers above and plow below, cow hides in back. |
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| Each farm had a strip of land stretching back to the sea, for hay and pasture and boat docking. |
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| Thatched roof |
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| The butler at the house door. |
That was Part One of this island.
Amazing. :)
ReplyDeleteThe unknown machine looks similar to one that was on our family farm in Michigan so Ted thinks it's a fanning machine to clean grain and seed.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, Pam. It could well be.
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