Sunday, October 03, 2010
Potsdam Apfelfest
We went to the Potsdam Apfelfest yesterday. (That's Apple Fest, if your German is even more rudimentary than mine.) Having missed the renowned Dahlem Kartoffelfest (Potato Fest) a couple of weekends ago, we were eager to see what was going on. They seem to celebrate every harvest here. I'm especially looking forward to Spargelfest (white asparagus fest) in the spring. Now I have to say that I thought Apfelfest would have been full of apples, but all we really saw were some boxes of apples and a guy making cold pressed cider on the spot. The Apfel puffers will have to wait for another day. There was no shortage of good food though, cheese, sausage, crepes, Hungarian fried dough things, hot wine and cider. The whole fest had a medieval theme, as though the apple harvest were a ye olde apple harvest. The knights' show was a highlight. Presumably the presentation was about how the knights would use different formations in battle, as the knights kept lining up in different ways as the guy described... what it was he was describing. Just when we were about to get fed up with not getting it, things started getting silly. The knights lined up in a sturdy phalanx and the emcee threw himself against this unyielding wall to show its strength. Then a bunch of little kids lined up, charged the phalanx and the knights all obligingly went down like a house of cards. After that there were several battles in which they kept adding elements, like lances, bowmen, etc. After it got good and complicated they did it all in slow motion which was hilarious. When a rubber tipped arrow would hit a knight, he would pick it up, stick it in his armpit and spiral to the ground and act like a corpse, unless he was in danger of getting stepped on, in which case he might scooch over a little, all the while maintaining the instrument of his impalement in place with one hand. Wunderbar! I'll be hitting all the fests I can from now on!
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The fests are so much fun. I will really miss those! IF the housing on Frankfurt had been different I would probably have enjoyed Germany a lot more. Did they have apfelwein at the apfelfest?
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