Germany is pretty :: 12:20
Again something that’s been lingering quite a while in the drafts section…
It’s been a while since I was last abroad, so the last weekend was good in that sense too. I had a major part of my summer holidays as an SCA trip as we attended the Coronation of Alaric and Nerissa. We made the trip easy for ourselves and left Tampere on thursday to have a bit of fun in Helsinki, shopping and seeing family there, we then set to the airport Holiday Inn to be able to catch a little more sleep than if we had to leave from Tampere on Friday morning, a good beginning imo.
The flight landed to Hamburg and as we drove out Me and M were whooping about the local flora (trees and freely groing hay on the roadsides) as well as the local architecture that is beautiful to the extreme. Autobahn is a magnificent idea, especially if one happens to be blessed with driver such like our’s (hi J) who surely knew how to operate there.
Event as a whole was magnificent. The site was kewl and it was nice to get to see people I normally have only internet contact with. Made new friends too and got to see how our southern cousins handle events. Got to be proud on how we Aarnimetsians handle things and so forth.
One could have gone on and on about the event, but now sufficient time has passed that I don’t much remember the details. But it did show the major strength of the SCA, the international nature. It left this feeling that it would be great to go abroad again and already we’re making plans. Should probably really make an effort and look into how to travel with all the essentials. Here in home we pack our car so full, that there’s no hope in travelling like that to events that one needs to fly in. So, the planning shall include sleeping arrangements B&B seems like the most recommendable one. How to travel with the fencing gear and so forth. When just tripping like this time it was relatively easy, but when going with all the necessary stuff it is going to be a lot harder gig.
