tag: Reenactment

Lipany 1434AD

Next year will be the 580th anniversary of the battle of Lipany, so everyone is expecting that the next year’s reenactment will be much bigger than this year. But even when it isn’t a rounded number it can still be good. All of it, the battle, the historical encampment and everything else was worth visiting. We can even say that this year’s event was preparing visitors for the next, more funded battle.

22nd battle of Libušín

There isn’t much to say and not repeat myself. I’ve already been to this battle twice and it’s harder and harder to write something new.

The Battle of the Ford 2012

Hussites under Zbořený Kostelec have by now become a tradition, but a vampire under Zbořený Kostelec? That’s a first. Originally I thought I was seeing things because of the terrible heat at the ford, but the photographs are a proof that this year’s battle really contained one vampire.

Battle of Lipany

This years’ Battle of Lipany was only the third one. I have not even heard of its first year and last year at that time I enjoyed the pleasures of pneumonia, so this time was my first.

Tudors at Kolín

I did not really plan to go to the Kolín Battle, but my previously planned programme was cancelled and I simply refused to stay at home