Showing posts with label festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label festival. Show all posts

Friday, April 19, 2013

Medieval Mdina Festival

Every year in Malta, on a weekend in April, the town called Mdina, transforms itself into a Medieval town.

Built on the highest spot on Malta, Mdina has great views over the island. It is a well preserved medieval town with narrow winding streets, lined with tall limestone houses. It takes you back in time... when people's lives were so much different from today...







...And with this in mind, Malta re-lives the past for one weekend every year...

This year, for the first time, I have participated as a re-enactor. I dressed up as a peasant, with the Anakron Living History group. We had our own spot in the Mdina square, and we were cooking Medieval food as well as selling wine.
 
*No make-up was allowed during re-enactment.

 Might I say, that I loved this experience, and I urge you all to attend next year. It is an event for all the family, where battles are conjured again, and medieval music is echoed throughout the city.

During this festival, all museums in Mdina also have special prices.

For more information visit: www.medievalmdina.eu

All photos in this blog entry are mine, except the portrait which was taken by Jimmy Borg.
Should you like to share any of your photography work or videos, kindly leave them in the comments below.

Monday, February 27, 2012

40 Things to do before I turn 40

So last weekend I was reading online and I came across a blog post, which was about things people wanna do, before hitting a certain age. As such, I started thinking what I wanna achieve in life. These are the things I came up with, some of which I've already done. Target year will hopefully be, 40.

1. Own my own place, rather than rent
2. Own a Canon 5D Mark II
3. Get permission to be an official photographer for a gig
4. Visit Germany
5. Learn more about WW2 and the Holocaust
6. Have a family
7. Dye my hair blue
8. Visit Cotterstock Manor/Hall in Peterborough
9. Ride a rollercoaster
10. Sky Dive
11. Live abroad
12. Own a dog, or a cat
13. Own my own website
14. Live alone
15. Organise a festival / gig
16. Cook for more than two persons
17. Go to the cinema by myself
18. Do a LoTR marathon
19. Raise money for the poor

20. Do volunteer work with animals or for a good cause
21. Learn to use a touch-phone with no keys
22. Own a 4-screen computer
23. Go to Transylvania
24. Learn how to dance (the kind people dance in wedding parties)
25. Have friends from all around the world
26. Write my own book (even if this is just an online version)
27. Go camping in a woods / forest
28. Shoot something
29. Get a Degree
30. Go to Cornwall
31. Meet a famous person
32. Get my driving license
33. Go on a safari
34. Win an award
35. Collect all of Anne Rice's Vampire books
36. Visit Auschwitz Memorial Museum
37. Ride a camel and go to the desert
38. Have a BBQ for Christmas in Australia
39. Don't go over-weight
40. Be proud of who I am and what I stand for

The numbers are not rankings, it's just how my mind flowed from one subject to the other, to create this list.



What about you, have you ever made this list? If not, I dare you! ;)