Monday, June 4, 2007

Reminiscing About Medieval Times

We are still in Ireland but we were reminiscing about Rothenburg (Germany) last night and re-visiting our photos from that magical weekend and thought we'd share the best of them. The festival was to celebrate an event when the Mayor saved the town from plunder 400 years ago.

Rothenburg is still completely contained within its medieval walls dating back to 12th century. The wall is still in excellent condition, you can walk around most of the town on top of the wall. The whole town gives off a completely 'walk back in time' atmosphere. It is a fairly large town as well, had a population of about 6,000 back in it's heyday.

All weekend about 200 people dressed in medieval costume were walking around the town playing their trumpets, drums, flutes and singing. You would turn a corner and there was another group, either soldiers, town wenches, musicians etc. The idea is that they would walk from one old hotel to the other and effectively sing for their supper. Once they had sung some medieval 'ditti' they would be rewarded with beer and wine from the hotel.

The wall



The wenches



Singing for their supper



Hilary fraternizing with the locals



Tony showing why men have 2 arms

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Tony and Hilary,

It looks like you are having
too much fun. Your photos
look great.

We are back in Brisbane now.
Your plant is still alive.
Elmo, the cow and the gurilla
are all behaving.

take care,

-rafael

Anonymous said...

Tony,

Thanks for the fireball.

If you think I will eat it
and make myself suffer on
my own... you're dreaming :)

-raf

Anonymous said...

WOW! all those photos are awesome! there is no way i am not travelling when i am older because the rest of the world look sooooo much more interesting then australia haha :) Looks like you two are having the best time and we have been keeping the house...tidyish...most of the time =P

Much love

Davis

Anonymous said...

Hi Irish Kiddies
Still having fun i see.To see the photos of Ireland made us very envious. We went that same route wth Kim about 5 years ago.
Kim is going good tho she needs to lie around most of the time...she is 29w 3d.
Cold westerlies here this Queens birthday weekend.
Keep having fun .lots of love terry and jo

Anonymous said...

Hey
Sorry it's taken so long to leave a comment. The photos look amazing and so green. Well looking forward to seeing u guys when u get back oh and Hilary your looking pretty skinny in the photos Tony u might have some competition from the Irish guys
Love from James