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| I could live in a house like this... |
Some time ago we had to make a quick trip to Bern because I needed to apply for a new passport. Bern isn't exactly around the corner for us and because we anyway had to drive there we decided to make it into a nice tourist day by visiting the
Ballenberg outdoor museum. Ballenberg is one of my favourite museums ever. The whole area is huge and so far we never managed to go through everything during one day.
The whole museum area is like a little Switzerland. It's organised so that you feel like walking from one village to another one. Each village presents the typical building style of a certain part of Switzerland. The houses are all original old houses historically protected and they have all been brough to Ballenberg from different parts of Switzerland.
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| ...but I might need a bit moderner kitchen than this one. |
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| Another old kitchen |
Ballenberg is not only for those interested in old building styles but also for the ones who want to see the old handcrafts being presented. One can follow the work of saddlery, basket weaving, pottery, silk ribbon weaving among plenty of other things. As food people we were of course interested in skills like cheese making. Food in Ballenberg was also worth of tasting. Some good typical Swiss food. We gave a cold platter a try and it was delicious. All the meat and cheese on the board was produced in Ballenberg. All in all, you should really pay this "museum" a visit. By the way, the header picture of this blog, the one with the spice jars, was also taken in Ballenberg.
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| For hungry guests there a some restaurants. All the cold cuts and cheese on the bord are produced in Ballenberg |
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| Cheese making |
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| Some of the cheese were ready to buy |
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| Cheese press |
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| Grapes in "Tessin" |
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| Landscape in Ballenberg |
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