Traditional Border Surveillance

During medieval times, the borders between fields or in forests were not as fix as they are today. To make sure, nobody moved the border stones or used some feet of the next field for himself, the borders had to be checked regulary. Our village council takes a walk along the borders of the village every 5 years, this year the field borders were "checked", in 5 years time they'll check the forest borders. 

On Saturday the council and every inhabitant who likes long walks met with the local brass band and started off at 9 am. Since I'm not very active in our village clubs it was fun to see many people I had not seen for some time and my husband and I spent most of the way in company of acquaintances. 

After about 2 hours we stopped for breakfast - luckily beside a restaurant with tolilets. As it was at the border to the town, they welcomed us with cannons and blocked our way. We had also cannons with us and after lots of noise and smoke - and the exchange of liquors - we could move on.

Unfortunately it started to pour with rain at the last stop, so those who walked on got drenched. Those who had family or friends at home tried to get collected. Well  - we walked home, changed clothes and went next door to the huge tent were we got dinner.

There was a dance at the tent in the evening, but I rather went to the culture mill for a concert of Monkey Train which was fantastic - although my feet were killing me after 3 hours of dancing on top of the long walk in the morning.