What I Did On Summer Vacation

On our third day in Nijmegen I helped load a trebuchet, that's right a freaking trebuchet. From August 26th to the 28th Nijmegen held it's 7th annual medieval festival in Kronenburgerpark. Throughout the day on the 26th, we kept returning to watch them set up their tents when we saw a huge trebuchet being set up to fire at Kronenburgerpark's tower.

This is where we met Wouter. Wouter is a medieval re-enactment actor who travels from festival to festival to engage in historical battles with the troupe, Fronti Nulla Fides. We actually test fired the trebuchet around three times with our accuracy improving with each shot.

Here is the flickr link for the video if you are unable to view it.
Meeting Wouter turned out to be quite fortunate because each time we bumped into him throughout the festival he was more than happy to take the time to educate us on their activities and the community that the performers share. They even invited us to one of their bar tents run by our German bartender who served a delicious cherry wine.
The next day we met up with my relatives, André and Vera who took us back into Nijmegen to watch the medieval parade.


Today we head into Nijmegen again to Brahmstraat to see the street that my Oma grew up on.

PS. Those of you who have been commenting on my language towards Rae, just look at what she has been batting me around with.