Stübing - Our last day trip from Graz

Hello people. As our time is coming to an end, here´s how I plan the rest of the blog to go. This will be my final blog about our little adventures in Graz. Over the weekend I will post a larger post about Graz and overall thoughts of the city. I think I will make one post about our trip back through Germany, but probably that will be short on text and mostly just pictures. After that I will probably make one or two posts about the general experience of exchange student life after I get a few days to reflect on. That’s what I’m currently planning on, but let’s get to today’s post.

During our last week in Graz we have mostly been around the city visiting our favourite spots and just relaxing. The weather has been absolutely blasting these past few days with heat in around 35c during the day. This is nice and feels like summer, but damn it does take a lot out of you and need to be really careful with having enough water at hand. Still the other day we made our last little trip outside Graz to another one of the suggested places from our “things to do near Graz” guide. This time we travelled to an open-air museum in Stübing. The museum was about the lifestyle and housing in Austria in the olden times. The museum is large spread in a valley with a hundred old houses from log houses to saw and water mills. The museum’s size was impressive as the valley was something like two kilometres long from the entrance and it took a good two to three hours to walk around with a stop for drinks. The museum was well done with plenty of modern restroom around the route and an interesting gift shop with all the ye olden gifts and trinkets. There have been some museums that have been lacklustre in these essentials, but it was great to see a well-run place.

Idyllic landscapes started quickly

Water wheel was satisfying to watch

Not so massive bell tower

Some saw equipment

Old time general store was not open for business

Great view from inside the house

Some kind of celebration pole in the middle

Hmm... yeh... i don't know

With a super-hot day, it was great to walk around the valley, where you could find plenty of shadow from the trees or step into one of the houses where it was cool. The houses reminded me a lot of Eastern Finland where my family spends most of our summers and there you see plenty of hundred-year-old houses and they all share a similar vibe. Pleasure it still was to see these new houses and to spend a summer day strolling in these idyllic sights. Think that’s enough for this time, see you over the weekend with my massive Graz post.