Europe's journeymen keep the past alive
These young men and women have finished their required training in any number of trades and are travelling to gather experience
New York
THEY hitchhike across Europe, instantly recognisable in the wide-bottomed, corduroy trousers, white shirts and coloured jackets that identify them as bricklayers, bakers, carpenters, stonemasons and roofers.
They are wandergesellen, or journeymen - a vestige of the Middle Ages in modern Europe - young men, and these days women, too, who have finished their required training in any number of trades and are travelling to gather experience. Most are from German-speaking countries.
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