Apr 18, 2007

Unce upon a time....there was no electricity.


Such lanterns are used by tourists in Cesis castle museum.

Can you imagine life without electricity now? It`s hard... but sometimes it`s nice to forget about electricity: suddenly there are things you can`t do and there are new things you can do, working and living conditions change, different thoughts come to your mind. In winter 2005/2006 we had a big storm in Latvia and almost all households, shops etc. were without electricity for a day and even more. We were sitting in dark at candle lights, drinking strong tea and talking, talking, talking... Suddenly we got so much time to spend just on one another, no TV, no books, no computer. Great!

2 comments:

The Traveller said...

It probably would be great for a couple of days...but I know I'd soon start to get fed up with people and begin wondering about who had emailed me and the things I normally read online...

Rozmarins said...

Yes, definitely, because for modern people there is so little they can and want to do without electricity.