Hi everybody!
I´m a 21 years old young technical student from as soon as I remember, interested in History, living in Vitoria-gasteiz, Spain, near Veleia and the mighty Cohors Prima Gallica, and thanks to them, also in reenactment and reconstruction.
Even the huge amount of books and museum visited, I´m still very muggle in a lot of aspects, you will be bombarded with lots of questions...with no mercy.:wink:
Thanks to my interests, I had learned a lot of English, and I´m just setting up after having stayed seven weeks in Dublin in job practice with a scholarship. Even that I thanked a lot that someone added a spelling check here!
As I know the Veleia current archaeologists (Eliseo Gil and Idoia Filloy) since I was child, and every year we went there, I was offered to help them in the Ludi Veleienses, were I´ve been some years enjoying while I was explaining with full of (bloody/nasty) details the superb quirurgic equipment replicas of Roma Antiqva (Funny!) and sometimes carring the stand of their ballistas (well, heavier and not so funny!, well, digging a ditch in worse :lol: ).There I had known a lot of people I hope yo meet here (I know Aitor is here...).
Also, my fencing club, even that it´s a "olimpic" fencing club (we don´t go to competitions for laziness, but we have go to any Medieval market/ historical event/castle in 300 km around.), has been like a "apprentice reenactors" club. We started with medieval fencing (bastard or one hand and half sword) four years ago, and we also do rapier fencing (in Spanish, Ropera).Also I joined them in some LARP combats (over 60 people!), where I had the pleasure of being part of a shield wall.Also we are going to found the local Armoury´s Museum (the best of Spain after the Army´s and the Royal Armoury) friends association.
Well,as you can see, I´m in a lot of things, and now in one more!
PD:The fencing club´s name (Comilitium Sacrae Ensis) was chosen taking words from a Latin dictionary, trying being originals. The city´s other club is named Cega, standing for "Club Esgrima GAsteiz" (Gasteiz´s,-the name of the city in Basque-Fencing Club).That´s all, no hidden history, no Temple´s knight or conspiracies, only some curious people!
PDD: As soon as I can I´ll have as avatar a newest photo...that was with "foam and tape" armour bits... :roll: