We spent several hours exploring Austria's Freilichtmuseum (Open-Air Museum) at Stübing, near Graz, and it wasn't long enough. You'd really need a whole day to do it justice, or even two or three days.
It's a collection of about a hundred traditional rural houses, brought from all corners of the country, and resurrected in one valley. You stroll around, and learn lots about traditional rural lifestyles.
It was a bit dark and gloomy inside some of the dwellings. That's how life was before electricity, of course.
But the bright floral displays would have helped to compensate. Modern day Austria is still a bright, pretty, floral sort of place too.
And I rather liked all the water wheels, powering flour mills and sawmills.
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