Medieval Fayre

From my German blog I got the first complaints about not writing for more than 10 days. So I asked myself what to tell you. It is not that so many exciting things happened here during the last weeks. I walked Amber, but that is not really something to write about. What else? Well, I finished my B&B management class with a 100% score. Yeah! I was really happy about that and it was fun to study again. Now that I am done with this class I need to think about the next project. But this won't fill pages and pages here.
Well, okay. Maybe I will take you with us on a quick trip into the past. Let's go to an Medieval Fair in Snailwell (and I hope the snails are doing well). This fair takes place once a year. The set up all kind of tents around an open place for shows. You can find all kind of different people dressed in medieval costumes, music and a big pig grilling over an open fire (no, the poor creature didn't die from swine flu, I guess).
So if you want to you can join us now. And the best thing is, you don't have to pay the 5 pounds entrance fee...


As soon as we arrive this knight jumped into our way: "Stop! You are looking not like people from here? Where are you from and why are you dressed in that funny way?".
Well, yes, he was right. Wearing jeans and a t-shirt was not what most people were wearing. But I was able to convince him about our good intentions and he let us pass.




For a long time we could still hear the people whispering and pointing with their fingers at us.
But as soon as we went a little bit further the knight started practice fighting with one of his friends and they didn't pay any attention to us anymore.






Can you smell it? Oh, we were so hungry. There were open fire places with stuff cooking in pots everywhere. But we learnt prett y fast that those delicious things were not for stranges. We had to line up in a long queue for the above mentioned pig. And I forgot to take a picture of it, but it was really good.
So we walked a little bit further. We didn't plan on buying anything. Oh, can you hear it.... what a lovely sound...


Aren't that... the who...ehm, who are they? Oh wait, maybe their names are Peter, Paul and Mary. No, that's wrong. But they are travelling a lot, so maybe they are the Wilburys. Or are there mor than just three?
Well, whoever they were, we enjoyed their music and slowly moved on.





And then we met this nice gentleman. Dave almost immediately thought of potential new patients. But we were not here for business, just for pleasure....







But who was that? I think we should try to get away from here as fast and careful as possible. This guy really looked very skinny...and pale....and cold... and not really alive....scary.





Oh, thank god, the tournament starts. Let's get there as quick as possible and leave this guy behind.

May I introduce you: The Red Knight and the White Knight. What unique names. The didn't really fight against each other. All they did is picking up rings and fight agains sime white cabbage with their axes. But it was fun anyhow. And the White Knight won... and he was a she.

But someone was missing on this whole event and we had to wait until the end before we finally saw him: the jester. Well, Dave tried to be one all the time, but it wasn't really the same. But then, just when we were ready to leave, we saw him standing right by the exit:


I had a hard time pulling Dave away from him. He was just fascinated ;o)
But there is an end to everything and finally we took our Mustnag for the right home.




Oh, by the way. It was a really big event and as you can imagine there are a lot of possible hazards there. Especially with all the open fire places. But we felt pretty save after we've seen the three buckets a the fire point. Especially since all of them were filled with water.

Have a great week!