Occasionally Vilseck has community events held at Burg Dagstein, the fortress downtown. Usually they're small, but draw in a local crowd. We heard about a medieval festival, and decided to check it out with low expectations. We were pleasantly surprised!
It was the first time they've held this event in the 3 years we've been here. We recognized some of the vendors from other places (for example, the same people were doing camel rides that we saw at t Gutteneck Christmas Market).
Lively musicians and dancers.. the loudness of it all made Tiago cry like crazy
It felt appropriate to take a picture of an old fashion wagon with our modern-day 3-kid wagon. And that guy was working on a manual lathe. It's hard enough when there's a power switch.
There was a discount for anyone who came in medieval costume. I'm sure they just had these lying around. (Kidding. You can tell a lot of people do this every weekend.)
Like Xena Warrior Princess, below. We realized later that she was part of a horse show.
Dedicated genealogist. His stuff was beautiful.
No fair would be complete without a witch.
Or a little jousting.
The procession passed by us... we saw the pope and the king.
Here's proof that first children are spoiled. Hyrum really wanted to get Tiago a shield. And I told him it didn't make sense to have a shield if you didn't have a sword... so here we were 17 euro later.
That looks like a lot of fun. Wish I'd been there!
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