When I saw Ken's group photo above I thought I'll leave the idea to post chronologically and I'll show you the photos from the historical event
first. Moreover - I owe this to my friend Eric, who put a lot efforts preparing the event and unfortunately he was so sick at the day, and he couldn't join
us. We missed him very much! We thought, we have to repeat it next year, because of Eric! 
I'll start my narration from the very beginning (bare with me, I'm in a writing mode ) - from the last year's meeting.
When we visited the fortress in Tarnovo last year, Ken stood at the edge of the walls, looked downhill and said: "This could be a great place to make a re-enacting shooting! Imagine, what a show it will be for us - the actors, for the audience and for the media!" I know Ken from years and I can tell you - this is not the first time he speaks prophetic. We really tried to organize it in Tarnovo, but the authorities there didn't allow arrow shooting in the
town. The man I contacted though, Varban Minev, who is a leader of the group for historical re-enacting in Tarnovo, suggested another place for our event - the
ancient Roman village Nikopolis ad Istrum, established around year 190.
After some wondering what to choose, this place or another old Roman ruin at the shore of a nowadays dam, Varban said it will be Nikopolis and he received a permission for the event there. The municipality officers thought, it is a good opportunity to make an interesting show on TV and they invited all big Bulgarian media. Wow, we didn't know about this and didn't expect it. Journalists are boring sometimes, we felt some pressed from all camera people,
but I think we coped very well in this situation. We were shown in the prime time news of all Bulgarian TVs and we had our 2 minutes glory . More
important is, that all of us, who were interviewed promoted primitive archery actually! I'll come back on this later again.
(I'll show you below the photos from Tsetso's and mine camera. They were taken, from Vida, Tsetso's wife, Toni (my son) and his girlfriend Zori)
When we started planing the event, Eric suggested to sew the kirtles and have the cloths ready for each one, so people would not hesitate to attend due to a lack of proper dress. He sent me the drawings of the kirtles and I made them. Eric prepared 17 belts for each one of us and several pouches!
We had a short lesson how to sew the belts and how to tie them
Eric was the one, who knew very well what is appropriate to wear and could explain medieval clothing in details. The day before the event we had so much fun getting ready!
Mark, Juri and Eric had their own suits and looked just great!
Eric wanted us to be very well acquainted and showed us our ancestor's underwear.
Here is how the ancient under-pants looked:
and here another wide and comfortable pants:
Here a night hat:
Meanwhile Kati dressed up and she and Eric looked like they were taken from an old painting
In the morning of the next day though we had to leave without Eric. We were upset...
When we arrived at the place, we were surprised from the many people, who expected us there. The Director of the Regional Historical Museum guided us shortly through the Roman village:
While he narrated about the ancient Romans, their lifestyle and culture (they had running spring water in each house and an amazingly good water-conduit in the village) he lead us to the center of the village, with a small amphitheater. He said they organized gladiator fights there. And they showed us in real how it was
They shot with the old rifles after that:
Then we were surrounded from the TV crew and had to reply their questions:
One of the ladies journalist went to Paul and asked him the silly question: "How do you feel when you wear these cloths?"
Paul replied very relaxed: "Sorry, I don't really understand your question. I always dress up like this!"
It is a pity I wasn't near him and couldn't take a photo of her flabbergasted face Paul said, she run away quickly to find another victim .
Many people watched our first shots. Both groups had to call their best shooters and we made a competition. Our PaleoPlanetarian shooters Juri, Ken and Mark ashamed the other group! Honestly, the Bulgarian guys were not archers, nor bowyers. They prepared their own archery tackle and did good job, considering
this was their first trial. Of course they were very impressed with our weapons .
Here is a newbie bowyer, who made his bow specially for the event. Not the perfect tiller, but he didn't have a teacher, nor any help.
Of course we exchanged our contacts and we hope we will meet soon and will be able to infect him with our bug.
Here is another first shooter, the photo would show a very good follow through, if he didn't drop the bow
(edited spelling, twice)
I'll start my narration from the very beginning (bare with me, I'm in a writing mode
) - from the last year's meeting.
When we visited the fortress in Tarnovo last year, Ken stood at the edge of the walls, looked downhill and said: "This could be a great place to make a re-enacting shooting! Imagine, what a show it will be for us - the actors, for the audience and for the media!" I know Ken from years and I can tell you - this is not the first time he speaks prophetic
. We really tried to organize it in Tarnovo, but the authorities there didn't allow arrow shooting in the
town. The man I contacted though, Varban Minev, who is a leader of the group for historical re-enacting in Tarnovo, suggested another place for our event - the
ancient Roman village Nikopolis ad Istrum, established around year 190.
After some wondering what to choose, this place or another old Roman ruin at the shore of a nowadays dam, Varban said it will be Nikopolis and he received a permission for the event there. The municipality officers thought, it is a good opportunity to make an interesting show on TV and they invited all big Bulgarian media. Wow, we didn't know about this and didn't expect it
. Journalists are boring sometimes, we felt some pressed from all camera people,
but I think we coped very well in this situation. We were shown in the prime time news of all Bulgarian TVs and we had our 2 minutes glory . More
important is, that all of us, who were interviewed promoted primitive archery actually! I'll come back on this later again.
(I'll show you below the photos from Tsetso's and mine camera. They were taken, from Vida, Tsetso's wife, Toni (my son) and his girlfriend Zori)
When we started planing the event, Eric suggested to sew the kirtles and have the cloths ready for each one, so people would not hesitate to attend due to a lack of proper dress. He sent me the drawings of the kirtles and I made them. Eric prepared 17 belts for each one of us and several pouches!
We had a short lesson how to sew the belts and how to tie them
Eric was the one, who knew very well what is appropriate to wear and could explain medieval clothing in details. The day before the event we had so much fun getting ready!
Mark, Juri and Eric had their own suits and looked just great!
Eric wanted us to be very well acquainted and showed us our ancestor's underwear.
Here is how the ancient under-pants looked:
and here another wide and comfortable pants:
Here a night hat:
Meanwhile Kati dressed up and she and Eric looked like they were taken from an old painting
In the morning of the next day though we had to leave without Eric. We were upset...
When we arrived at the place, we were surprised from the many people, who expected us there. The Director of the Regional Historical Museum guided us shortly through the Roman village:
While he narrated about the ancient Romans, their lifestyle and culture (they had running spring water in each house and an amazingly good water-conduit in the village) he lead us to the center of the village, with a small amphitheater. He said they organized gladiator fights there. And they showed us in real how it was
They shot with the old rifles after that:
Then we were surrounded from the TV crew and had to reply their questions:
One of the ladies journalist went to Paul and asked him the silly question: "How do you feel when you wear these cloths?"
Paul replied very relaxed: "Sorry, I don't really understand your question. I always dress up like this!"
It is a pity I wasn't near him and couldn't take a photo of her flabbergasted face
Paul said, she run away quickly to find another victim .
Many people watched our first shots. Both groups had to call their best shooters and we made a competition. Our PaleoPlanetarian shooters Juri, Ken and Mark ashamed the other group!
Honestly, the Bulgarian guys were not archers, nor bowyers. They prepared their own archery tackle and did good job, considering
this was their first trial. Of course they were very impressed with our weapons .
Here is a newbie bowyer, who made his bow specially for the event. Not the perfect tiller, but he didn't have a teacher, nor any help.
Of course we exchanged our contacts and we hope we will meet soon and will be able to infect him with our bug
.
Here is another first shooter, the photo would show a very good follow through, if he didn't drop the bow
(edited spelling, twice)
