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Midsummer at the Mittlealter festival

We had a great anniversary day yesterday - spent it out at a middle ages festival that was like a mini RenFest but with more alcohol and more children with weapons. We got some very fine mead in a stoneware bottle, reuasable as an oil lamp with the appropriate wick, for 12 euros and sat on the river bank watching gothlings flock and sipping it slowly. Mmm... excellent stuff. Good mead is like distilled sunlight.

There was a blessing ceremony of a newly built Viking river boat, a small demo combat, and then a long walk home along the riverbank. Six years. We may be perenially broke, but we're rich in experiences. (continue reading &aquo;)

Solstice in Berlin

It's the shortest night of the year. I'd much rather be out at a bonfire than here at the digital hearth, but at least Tony and I went out to the Friedricshain Folkpark and climbed the big hill out there. We had some good bread with local goat cheese on top, and split a bottle of "Odin's Drink" honey ale. Very lovely. Getting up and down the hill is a bit like walking a labyrinth on a cone; lots of circling around and getting very disoriented. It's all forested and you can't get much of a view. I like it.



On a side note, I'm trying out a new service, Ping, which lets me cross post from my blog to a variety of other sites - LJ, MySpace, etc. So here's hoping it works.



Also, Tony took some pictures of me for profile pics and whatnot - take a look and tell me which you think I should be using, please! They're linked off the photo below.

First post. Testing, testing, etc etc.