Castles And Cats

Last night Reto and I went on this "Nacht der Schlösser" thing, which was (as the name suggests, if you're into that sort of thing) a night of castley fun. Two local castles, Lenzburg and Hallwyl, were open until 2am and there were shuttle buses running between them, and there were people dressed up as folk from the olden days telling stories about the castles and demonstrating things and leading informative tours around the place and handing out glühwein (none of which, apart from the glühwein of course, was so handy for me what with it all being so relentlessly foreign-speaky). We did a lot of wandering around and peering at moats and olden days prisons and thick stone walls, and we met an adorably friendly castle cat and ate this wacky peach tart thing (which was not Olden Days at all, but it was delicious). There was an outdoor movie theatre at one of the castles, which was interesting (but as it turned out nowhere near as super as the outdoor cinema that Reto and I went to in Fribourg (in Switz) last year, which was in some medieval fort) but extremely poorly patronised owing to the fact that the weather was sort of abysmal. Which turned out to be a bit of a boon for us, because the dark-of-night castle scenery was punctuated by the odd dramatic flash of lightning. Of course this also meant that we were occasionally rained on and stood in a few puddles, but I suppose that's the price you pay.