Kira

This is my favorite shot from the Gorodets living history festival in 2006. It always makes me think I should title it, “No shit, there I was…” The guys fighting are mainly college students who do this as a hobby. It’s live steel, dull weapons but otherwise real. My husband joined the group and got to find out exactly how authentic Viking re-enactment combat can be when he took an axe direct to his shin bone and had to be carried out of the woods on his shield.

The really annoying thing about that… I mean other than the four months following of bringing him beer and coffee while be propped up his cast… was that we’d just watched “300″ before he went out to the event. And I quoted Queen Gorgo to him as he went out the door, “Come back with your shield, or on it!”. Sigh. And now he’ll never, ever let go of the bloodstained thing.

Originally published at Seeking the World's Soul. You can comment here or there.

Wrote this Friday, but had a server error so reposting now:

We went down to the station and got me a ticket back to Moscow today, leaving Sunday night. Got a bed in a sleeper car, too! Tony, however, had no such luck... there are currently no tickets at all available in January. They told him to come back on the 26th and see if anyone had canceled.

So, this hostel is giving him a cheap rate for a long term stay, and he got a local phone SIM card today. I'm not looking forward to sitting around an empty apartment for the holidays.

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