Castle festival

[Paul]

On the 29th and 30th of August there´s a Middleages Burgfest (castle festival) at the 13th century castle of Hardenstein.
Might be fun, give me a chance to pull my green tights on again !!
Address;
Hardensteiner weg
Witten-Herbede
Sat from 10 pm
sun from 11pm

www.burgfreunde-hardenstein.de

[je_touche]

I don't believe this. This is some 1 km away from the place where I spent most of my youth. We used to play a lot in and around the ruins of Hardenstein Castle.

You could pay a visit to my parents in your outfit.

And have a very nice time of course!

[Paul]

Some pics of the event, should bring back memories for je-touche

the castle from the far bank,


the ferry with gaurds


Here you had to give up all your weapons



Pics of one of the knights

Here he is savagely sticking a biro into one of the visitors


The armourers tent,


there was even a puppet show, in this picture is the "schwarze(black) Benno" Seriously, that was it´s name


Not a bad little day out, Archery, Axe throwing and the re-enactors really got into being middle age folk, made up with scars, blacked out teeth etc. Not a huge event but well attended. Bit cold but fun all the same

[Peter]

Nice pictures Paul Looks like you had a lot of fun

How did you passe that gate? Don't they know that a camera in your hands is a weapon?

Greetings Peter

[Paul]

the baseball bat behind my back did the trick

[je_touche]

Memories of long-past days come back. We used to spend a lot of time on that castle.

Aha, and looking at that pic with the boat I couldn't quite think what it reminded me of. Now I got it - 'The Mouse That Roared', film starring Peter Sellers, medieval army crossing the atlantic in a fisherboat to attack the USA.

[Peter]

Good and very entertaining movie! Maybe the real Peter Sellers was standing behind the camera this time, called Paul

Greetings Peter