Walking barefoot is not so unusual for farmer children in this region (Appenzell) and is for these children not painful. Do not forget it was a walk from about 7 hours !!!
And dear friend @@ottolagger204, that is a great truth. It's better to live barefoot (healthier, happier and more comfortable) than in shoes. It's just pure nature. And finally, the bare feet are part of the traditional folk costume of the ancestors. And I have a great admiration for the peoples who respect these customs, still unaltered by the waves of modernism 🦶🏼🦶🏼😊❗
My dear Otto ~ @@ottolagger204, foor this wonderful comment I congratulate you with all my heart and wish you all the best with strong health and happiness, in quiet and peace🕊❗ Sincerely, Dinu, from Romania. Thank you 🙏🏻. And also thank you dear Cecile for the question🌹
In general, walking barefoot during summertime is quite common for kids and even teens in rural areas in and around the alps. As for me, I grew up in a small village in southern Bavaria and it was normal for me and most of the other kids to walk barefoot almost everywhere (except e.g. at school) in summer. I also know that from Austria and South Tyrol. I think it is kind of a certain lifestyle close to nature, mixed with a cultural tradition of hardening your body which was vital for farming in earlier times.
In the summer the farmer brings his cattle up to the high mountain pasture so that they can graze up there (its too high up to live there in the winter). While they‘re up there, he uses the grass down on the farm to make hay for the cattle to eat in the winter. At the end of the summer, he brings the cattle back down to the farm. That‘s what this is.
@@uncipaws7643 Like we do in Norway. Cattle are brought up to the mountain farms. And eating the mountain-grass has a huge impact on the quality of the milk. Mountain-farm butter and cheese are highly requested products. The moving up the Norwegian mountain farms is not as spectacular and audible as we see here, but it is done for the same reason.
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Please tell me where is it exactly
Can you tell me why some of the girls are barefoot? It must be really painful to take a so long trip without shoes!
Walking barefoot is not so unusual for farmer children in this region (Appenzell) and is for these children not painful. Do not forget it was a walk from about 7 hours !!!
Walking barefoot on gravel can be exhausting and annoying, on grass it's really energizing, I like doing long walks on the grassy pastures.
And dear friend @@ottolagger204, that is a great truth. It's better to live barefoot (healthier, happier and more comfortable) than in shoes. It's just pure nature.
And finally, the bare feet are part of the traditional folk costume of the ancestors. And I have a great admiration for the peoples who respect these customs, still unaltered by the waves of modernism 🦶🏼🦶🏼😊❗
My dear Otto ~ @@ottolagger204, foor this wonderful comment I congratulate you with all my heart and wish you all the best with strong health and happiness, in quiet and peace🕊❗
Sincerely, Dinu, from Romania.
Thank you 🙏🏻. And also thank you dear Cecile for the question🌹
In general, walking barefoot during summertime is quite common for kids and even teens in rural areas in and around the alps. As for me, I grew up in a small village in southern Bavaria and it was normal for me and most of the other kids to walk barefoot almost everywhere (except e.g. at school) in summer. I also know that from Austria and South Tyrol. I think it is kind of a certain lifestyle close to nature, mixed with a cultural tradition of hardening your body which was vital for farming in earlier times.
Why they are walking, any particular reason
In the summer the farmer brings his cattle up to the high mountain pasture so that they can graze up there (its too high up to live there in the winter). While they‘re up there, he uses the grass down on the farm to make hay for the cattle to eat in the winter. At the end of the summer, he brings the cattle back down to the farm. That‘s what this is.
Some trails are too narrow to bring them up with trucks. Also, tradition.
@@uncipaws7643 Like we do in Norway. Cattle are brought up to the mountain farms. And eating the mountain-grass has a huge impact on the quality of the milk. Mountain-farm butter and cheese are highly requested products. The moving up the Norwegian mountain farms is not as spectacular and audible as we see here, but it is done for the same reason.
BARE FEET ARE HAPPY FEET ~ EVER ⛰🌲🌲🌲🐑😊🦶🏼🦶🏼🐏🐑🌲🌲🌄💚❗