Fair maidens in Parade
Leaving Konstanz in a cold rain we found the bike trail and started for the ferry at Dingelsdorf. By taking the ferry to Ueberlingen we avoided some very steep parts of the trail. It was cold and windy on the boat. We stopped at the pfahlbaumuseum to visit a replica of a village from the stone and bronze ages. The rain stopped but it was still very cold. We decided to stop and buy some gloves and a watch cap for Mac. We arrived in the medieval town of Meersburg. To find the info centre we had to go up a steep narrow lane. Coming down the lane was a parade of people dressed in medieval costumes. There was a market and medieval festival going on this weekend. The parade was to take the Mayor to the lake and to drown him for heresey. After we had got our room the parade came back up in front of our hotel and the knights had some sword fights and the fair maidens did some dancing. We decided to have dinner at the hotel but everything was more expensive then what we were used to. Mac ordered Zander, a fish from the lake, and I had the salad also with little fillets of zander. Mac did not know that there is a special knife for eating fish and he thought it was a butter knife. A common mistake for the unwashed. After dinner we stepped outside and there were men with broad swords walking around with their maidens. You just don't get used to that. |
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