Lifecruiser

Here comes a report of amusements during the medevial week on Gotland, what you can expect when you go there next year.

You are going to travel there of course?!

- Market with a lot of medevial things
- Poeta Magica, Cultus Ferox, Pisces Dei (medevial music)
- Tournaments and Archery shows
- Jester groups, fire-eaters, circus
- The trilogy and other lecture
- The Monk ball, popular soccergame
- Medevial camps
- Medevial dances
- Walking tours, guided tours
- Concerts, musicals
- Gutnic Tales
- Medevial parade
- Feasts to participate in

And of course, all the participants and visitors is partying in the evenings at the medevial restaurants, The Grim Hare or Clematis.

Then, when you go home, in the middle of night through empty old streets in Visby, maybe catching some monk strolling by in front of one of the churchs, you really feel like you are in the middle age.

In both senses; you are dressed up like an medevial AND you are sooo very tired after a long fun day and evening, that you fells like you are too old…

C U there next year!

Waited too long? We know that we promised you to report some more from Gotland, but at the time we were there we did not get the chance to do that, so here we write some more about it. We always keep our promises :-)

We went to a medevial trilogy there, which I hope will be there for next year too, because it was really educational about Gotlands medevial history. But in a fun and easy way, not so boring dry as usual…. So we really recommend it for next year!

Ohh, and be sure to come in your medevial outfit to really blend in and feel the timestamp!

Catch the story:

The year is 1313. Swedish king is Birger Magnusson (with his wife Märta from Denmark) and his financies is really lousy, he has borrowed money that he has to pay back. Now he want to raise the taxes for Gotlands folk (”Gutar”).

And you can imagine how unpopular that was - just like nowadays!

Day 1) Medevial session of the district court in Tingstäde and the threat from the king Birger. Announcement of disembarking of the kings army (”Svear”). Sorry, we missed that part so can not report more about it.

Day 2) The battle at Röcklinge, at Laikarhaid in Lärbro. A historical professor was helding a lecture for us about it. And he did it really well! I have never heard such a different and FUN lecture that kept your interest all the time. And if you despite that loosed your concentration for a while, he woke you up by yelling loud. He was good at it, we liked him a lot.

Then we got to see it with our own eyes, they played it out on the spot. After some negotiations that did not go well, there was a real battle at the field with Svear in armours, knights, archers, Gutar (local farmers). The riders from Svea was on big swedish horses and the ones from Gotland was on small local ponys, called Gotlandsruss on swedish.

But still, the farmers did beat the kings army! Yeeeahhhh!

Ooooops, they nearly chopped the kings head of, but a farmer saved him in the last second. Pheeeww…

Day 3) The kings feast in Hejnum. He and the queen invites the countryjudges and Gotlands folks to a big country feast. The king made the farmer (that saved his head) to a knight. There was medevial music, food, jesters, fire-eaters and entertainers of all kinds.

And what happened after the feast? Then it was time for the hang-over…..

The (not?) fun part is that they still had to pay the higher taxes, somehow they messed it up afterwards. No one knows exactly what happened. The burghers in Visby probably saw that they would gain some benefits from the king, so they sold them out in the end.

The king got his money to pay his debts and the farmers had to pay the higher taxes. The same as today, we are sorry to say.

Anyway, it was a smart way to get the facts to stick in our heads - at least for a while!

If you have - why not share your secret with us all? Send it to Postsecret.

I have tried to come up with a secret on my own and have to do some heavy thinking now, can not think of anything at the moment….

Or is it that it is so secret that I will not even tell you that I have one…?

We are the best! We are the winners! We got lucky (or was it skill?) at the pokertable again - jippppiiieeee!!!

And another goodie: NO FEE when we made the withdrawal. There is some pokersites we have played at that have been charging us for taking out our money, we do not like that.

We do not understand how they can get away with the fee - no, we will stay away from them, the only way we have to show our big dissatisfaction!!!

We are going to celebrate with some really good stuff, champagne and……..

Let your imagination do the rest!

(ooooh, what are you thinking, you naughty ones….. ;-)

I never got a clue about for what reasons people fall in love with each other. What is it that attracts the person with just that other person? What makes the person with (in others eyes) that really ugly big mouth with big shark teeths or with bumps all over the body likes an octopussy, so attractive?

They call it LOVE, pure LOVE, the most wonderful thing in life!!! Try it you too…

I am an octopussy myself - so look out for my big multi-arms hugs ;-)

Look at another case of strange love feelings

Well, well, what do we have here….. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural on the internet - if you are thinking that your life is too boring maybe?

Take a look in to the mysterious

Wow, what a cool application, we stumbled over Google Earth today which truly is amazing!

We just love to be able to zoom in to places that we are going to travel to.

As they say them selves:

“Dive right in - Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.

Do not miss that you can search for example: “hotels near picadilly circus” among other searchterms.

Be sure to read the help information, you get a lot of very useful tips there!

Go around the world with Google Earth

@ home again! What a feeling. We will be sleeping in our own bed for the first time since the 4th of July, that feels like an eternity. And to be able to use our own belowed computers with broadband connection, what a luxury…

It is the small things in life that makes it so good to live! *smiling*

Look out, the maniacs are back in town again *laughing crazy*

Feel like singing - in the rain perhaps? *smiling big*

We were yesterday and went to the karaoke evening at Sudersands badrestaurang on Fårö. They have karaoke evenings every wednesday during the summer, but next wednesday will be the last one for the season. Then, I guess, the summer is over in Sweden….?

It is this local friendly atmosphere there, where people can enjoy them self and no matter the voice, the support from the audience is huge. It is a really nice fellow that is organizing the singers, Gert Hansson.

So if you ever are on Gotland and want a karaoke evening on your party, make sure to hire him!

Well, that was our share of the medevial week in Visby, Gotland, Sweden. It has been truly amazing to see all this medevial things, clothes and to taste wild pig etc.

The first day we were strolling around in our own clothes from the 18th century (actually the clothes we were wearing at our wedding last year). We even did wear wigs and mine is about 24 cm high! I had to duck everywhere or I got stuck with the wig.

Boy, did we get peoples attention… pheeeeeew…. All the tourist wanted to take pictures of us and sometimes with them standing in between us too. I cant even guess how many countries our picture is spread to now :-)

Another guy that was standing out from the big crowd was a man dressed in women clothes from around 1975, from a boutique called “Polarn och Pyret” that was very popular during that period. He was a brave man - a real viking….?

We even bought our selves some medevial costumes to really blend in among all the others. That was really fun. Mr Lifecruiser was sooooo cool in his different kind of hats we managed to find for him. One of them even had horsehair hanging out of it. Just outstanding!

Most of our clothes we bought at lunar plexus design, sorry that their website is only in swedish, but you can look around at the pictures. It is not all of their clothes, they have more, nicer ones too.

I even bought a dress from another place too, a kind of medevial and fantasy mix, more suitable when it is sunshine and warmer outside. It was in a boutique in Visby, on the mainstreet there, Adelsgatan, Wåtz wear.

The same goes for another place with medevial things, handelsgillet.

Yesterday evening we went to the restaurant and pub called Bistra Haren (The Grim Hare), to listen to medevial music and relax among other people in medevial clothes. It is on the side of the S:t Nicolai ruins, so the feel of the medevial time was complete!

They serve - among other food - something called poor-man’s stew, all to get the feeling right. The music was very special and people were dancing in an medevial way, really interesting. We really liked that place a lot. We will defenitely come back there next year.

Another medevial restaurant that is very popular is Clematis - we tried to get in there but it was full at the time.

Time to leave Visby now.

C U somewhere else soon again :-)