Carnage

This year, the Jorvik Viking Festival celebrated its silver jubilee. To mark that milestone the organizers wanted a more spectacular show than usual, complete with a ship burning and firework display.

For the first time in ages, I didn’t have to give anyone a lift to York this year and so arranged to car share with JD and stay over for the whole weekend. We set off mid afternoon on Friday and after an easy trip, dropped our gear off at the school hall and dropped in on the LHE at the Guildhall. Having said hello to the guys who’d been hard at it all week, we grabbed some food before heading off to the pub. The Bay Horse was already starting to fill up and throughout the evening more and more of Regia arrived. We had a great night chatting and planning battle tactics for the following day!

On Saturday morning we kitted up and in dribs and drabs headed off on the (longer than you think) walk from the school hall to the Museum Gardens for training at 10. I wandered in via breakfast at a decent little café with Jane and some of the Lith, arriving just after practice had started.