Hey there!
Had a 2 hour walk to Reeth today (impressions can be seen on facebook as profile/cover photos) to visit Reeth Show, an annual agricultural show that had its 100th birthday this year. There are competitions in all sorts of disciplines:
- bakery
- art (with food, knitted stuff, photography, painting etc.)
- craftsmanship (hiking poles, sheperd's crooks etc.)
- agricultural products such as vegetables, wool, hay etc.
- best sheep/poultry/horse/pony breeds (in different classes)
- nicest vehicles drawn by horses
- some curiosities, mostly for kids ;) -> best hand writing, nicest painted picture etc.
- fell racing in all age groups (the fells are the hills so some sort of a test of stamina, for both males and females, mainly carried out in the Dales as well as in the Lake District which is Cumbria)
In addition to that they presented:
- a tractor parade
- a Zetland Hunt display. Two men wearing hunting red coats on very well-behaved and -trained British hunt horses with a pack of hounds, Foxhounds to be exact, and the host with the microphone said something about 16 1/2 couples. Cath and I are musing about what he might have meant with that, we suppose he was referring to the dogs but we're not sure and google doesn't speak to us... Anyway, impressive thing those hunting displays! Oh, one information for all animals' rights activists out there: hunting was banned in Scotland in 2002, in England and Wales in 2004. But still it's lovely to watch, very majestic horses, the sound of the horn that keeps the hounds together, the hounds themselves! Actually, this hunting thing is quite interesting and very traditional in England, so why not take an hour or so and google it? ;)
I have just three days left here on one of which I'm in Cambridge for the day and in London for the evening (meeting Maria! :)). Time went by so fast and it was a lovely time I enjoyed a lot.
Lots of Love,
Katrin
[day 36]
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