Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

We arrived well after a tiring fight with one stop in Munich. After that it's been quite busy, at the moment visiting my inlaws. The country has very diverse styles of building houses, yet one thing is never the case: houses made of wood like we have in Canada and the US. My inlaws' house is made literally of clay, with walls almost 2 feet thick. Dates from 1870 or so. In this village the style is to have no space between the house and the sidewalk. You open the window and reach out, you can touch a passersby.

Most other houses are made of insulating brick, you know the brick with tunnels inside. Then there's a net fixated on the outside and finer cement layed out on top. That's just the tradition.

As you enter the gate usually you find a place for spending time outside , like a bench and table on concrete slab.
Then behind a fence, it's rare not to see a veggie garden all the way back.

My inlaws are in their 70s so they don't put a lot of work in the garden, yet there are all kind of fruits and vegetables.
They got prunes, grapes, quince, apples, peaches, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, carrots, and others. They also have chickens. Sometimes they grow a pig.

This is a typical household here. As I said before, minimal lawn anywhere.

We're going to another region about 70 miles away from here, in a hilly region. Things are different there. I'll post pictures.

@Eugen - Thanks for sharing your photos, So interesting to see how people live in other parts of the world...

Forgot to say, this is a modest income household. People better off have much bigger and newer houses, more modern,, and more land. Like everywhere I suppose.

Eugen wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:46 am Forgot to say, this is a modest income household. People better off have much bigger and newer houses, more modern,, and more land. Like everywhere I suppose.

Glad you got there ok . Don't envy the flight though .

I wish my garden was as nice as theirs. I would be quite happy in a place like that . Simpler lifestyle .

@Eugen Looks like a good trip! Kudos to your in-laws, they seem to have really done a fine job keeping a 150 year old house in nice condition. Like you said people that are better off have newer shiny things, but, as we all know from our old tractor work there is a sense of satisfaction and pride in keeping the older things going, including houses and property! I’m really envious of their grape vines! Ive all but given up on mine. I really enjoy seeing the sites. Looking forward to seeing the hill country!

Thanks for sharing Eugen. It's always interesting to see life in other countries. My dad's dad was born somewhere in Romania and I'd like to visit the country some day. Your photos will suffice for now!

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Sorry guys, I've been MIA travelling. We went to visit a rural property, in a small village among hills. Those hills go on for miles and then mountains. There people live a simpler life. Few tractors around, they raise a few animals and grow veggies and some corn. Some work in the nearest city, one or two hours away. It's hard to describe it all. Yet the village we visited had fiber optic internet connections. Here are a few pics. It needs a lot of work. I realize it's really nothing special, just a rural area in a small and unimportant country in Eastern Europe.

This is a house which needs complete renovation.







A view from the back of the property.




I must say, the simpler life there, closer to the land, is very appealing to me.

Great Video clips !

We don't even have fibre optic at our place . I guy like you could work from home in a place like that . And every village in every country is important to someone .

Thanks for the pictures and videos @Eugen I must say I’m enjoying your vacation!

We’re the same as Dave no fiber optic cable around here.
I think you’re selling the place a little short Eugen. From what I see in your posts it is a picturesque country with a lot of people that hold to a traditional lifestyle, kinda nice I think. With everything going on in the world today I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being an “unimportant country”. Let’s hope it stays that way.

Beautiful, very pastoral scenes! It seems so peaceful and predictable, far from the hustle that we experience in the west.

I'd really enjoy it there. For the first two weeks. Then I'd start a desperate hunt for some kind of tooling or machinery, something to keep my mind and hands busy, trying not to lose my mind!

@JSinMO I guess I didn't want to come across in a big way, this is not the Swiss Alps or anything, but it has a certain charm which has to do a lot with the way people still live.

@thebuildist , yeah, I had similar thoughts. But then there's a really tiny town about 6 miles away and when I entered the tiny hardware store it blew my mind. It had everything there. Including hydraulic hoses, all sizes of wheel bearings you can think of, wow. Honestly, for more items I can think of it had more options than our regular hardware store in Canada. A mom and pop store on two levels of a house. And right across the street there was another little place advertising hydraulic hoses. The way it goes here, it seems a few people got some old tractors and they do the work got others as well. No big farms in this area.

And we're back home, arrived late last night safe and sound, just tired, after 24h of traveling without being able to sleep. The toughest of the 24 was the last hour of driving in the dark. I was literally pinching myself worried my brain turns itself off.

I'll share a few videos from the property we visited. We intend to move there at some point in the future, in search of a simpler life.









I also went up in the mountains, which was nice too.

Welcome back! Glad you arrived safe and sound, late night trips are never much fun, especially when you are at the risk of falling asleep behind the steering wheel. I really appreciate beside me on those trips the helps keep me awake

The countryside there looks beautiful, I completely understand your desire to move back there in search of a more peaceful lifestyle.

That awesome . The mountain view are breath taking . Glad you all made in home safely . Get some rest , can't wait to here all about it .

Welcome home to you and the family! After 24 hours of travel I bet the boys were wore out! Glad your all back safe and sound. It sure seems to be some pretty country over there.

Very pretty country.

Glad you're all back safely. Looks beautiful and can certainly see the attraction to a simpler life. Thanks for sharing!

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Thanks for the pics of your out of country vacation, I enjoyed the views. Glad to hear yourback home and everyone is safe. Harry