Steve n Jen's UK adventures

UK and European adventures. Read on my pretties, and discover what two stray Aussies can get up to on their travels.......

28 August 2007

Aug 2007 a

Thu 2 Aug 2007
Tonight about a dozen of us visited the Museum of London for a free guided tour through the medieval section. Afterward we enjoyed a pint together at the local pub around the corner. Good fun!

Sat 4 Aug 2007
Pack for Visby, and a quiet wedding anniversary together.

Sun 5 Aug 2007
Made it to Heathrow and flew on to Gotland Island.

Mon 6 Aug 2007
Here are some shots of Visby, and the moat where the SCA fighting takes place....




Tue 7 Aug 2007
One of the things we did today was visit the Gotland Museum.

Above: Gudrun joined us on her tour from Australia. And it looks like the apple Mac has been worshipped for centuries ;-)

Wed 8 Aug 2007
Tournament went well. Steve came third and the winner, Sigfredis, had serious bragging rights, eliminating some top knights to win!
Afterward, we attended the horse joust (non SCA) as guests.

Above: Eight riders thundered down the field at the joust
Below: Prince Bjorn and Princess Wiljia enjoyed the spectacle with us


Thu 9 Aug 2007
Jen was asked to do calligraphy for Sigfredis' trophy sheepskin (top quality skin) then asked if instead it could be runes. After looking at Haakon's tattoo and being inspired she came up with this:


Fri 10 Aug 2007
Court - Amongst some many wonderful memories, and well deserving recipients, Haakon's laurelling ceremony was amazingly topped by a shooting star appearing to the Royals, just above his head and shoulders, as he was being proclaimed a Laurel. Most auspicious. Also of note was the knighting of Earl Marcus, and the amazing Landschneckt party afterwards!

Better pictures can be found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_edricus/sets/72157601458804905/
http://constance.zoomin.se/A25937
http://ottilia.zoomin.se/A25851
http://serah.zoomin.se/A26030
http://ceciliajaeger.zoomin.se/A26016
http://citikas.zoomin.se/A25948
http://www.baggeholm.se/bildgalleri.html

Sat 11 Aug 2007
Left site early and travelled home. Managed to get home about half an hour before picking up Jen's Mum and sister Kathy from the local Tube station.

Sun 12 Aug 2007
Played tourist with Jen's family, and visited Legoland, just a bit west of Windsor Castle.

Above: Let the Lego Run Free!
Below: Here we are in Lego-London...


Above: Someone has to really really love St Paul's Cathedral to put so much care into reconstructing it in Lego
Below: Ripped off! The full scale mock-castle isn't made of lego. Pretty impressive all the same.



Tue 14 Aug 2007
Jen's birthday. Gets lovely stuff from mum and sister, and fabulous cooked meal from Steve. Meanwhile, Kathy and Jen's Mum manage to get in the odd bit of sight seeing here and there. After work we visited John and Fiona to collect Jen's house keys (which she'd left in Cambridge) and then Nick and Jenny's to pick up their house-keys, as the temporary place we'll be living.

Wed 15 Aug 2007
After work, we had dinner with Agro and Glynnis who were in town after Pennsic. Tonight we also signed up for our storage rental, and started to move a couple of things out of the house, and into storage. The house de-construction begins!

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