Tomorrow the 4 day Castlefest festival will start! see website below!
and see the after official movie from 2022 !
The festival ground in Lisse:
Over the 4 days 37 groups will give their performance over 3 music stages, see list of bands:
further there are over 150 stands with wide variety food drinks and merchandise , for the details have a look in the program booklet in English that can be downloaded on the following page in Dutch and English:
At this moment most tickets are sold out, there are still some tickets for the Friday and Sunday', so don't wait to long now, see for availability in the next link:
Weather forecast over the 4 days from 3 till 6 August, see buienradar below which page is refreshed every 30 minutes, hereby the predicted forecast on Wednesday 2 august at 12.00 noon.
Photo's i took on previous years can be found in my gallery on Deviantart:
https://www.deviantart.com/pagan-live-style/gallery/11114726/castlefest
Greetings Len.
In the coming weeks we will be very busy if weather permits , so it can happen i will not be able to upload or answer directly , or say thanks for the fav's !
Next long weekend from 3 till 6 August we will be going to Castlefest in Lisse for 4 days.
Will upload some photo's in the week after Castlefest.
The weekend from 12 till 13 August we have planned to go too Mera Luna in Hildesheim Germany.
After this weekend depending on weather and most important the temperature and if it rains or not perhaps we stays in Germany for a small holiday.
If there is no forecast for rain the week after in Holland we will go back home, since we also have to do some exterior painting on the house, and have some work on the roof to do, we have some leakage due to the storm we had.
Iff so after the paintwork /roof work, we let us guide by the temperatures in Europe at that moment, to have a small holiday which can be in Holland, Belgium, or the north of France (where we haven't been since 2019 due too Corona).
greetings Len.
Update September on cats and work.
First week of September we were told by the care takers where Poekie lives now, that she had died of old age , at the age of 17. may she rest in peace.
Further the very sociable siamese visiting cat Gizmo is no longer with us.
She has been ran over by a car on 24 August 2022. May she rest in peace.
We had not seen Gizmo since the end of August, and assumed her caretakers where on vacation like so many people on our square, and that she was taken to a cat shelter for the duration of the vacation.
Two weeks ago we heard rumors that Gizmo was gone (Not the first time), but it didn't make sense because she had a GPS tracking collar. A few days later we heard from her caretaker Carole who came to our house , to inform us that Gizmo had been ran over by a car on the bussy road between their house on the square and the recreation park/forest on the other side of a bussy road. (see below)
Someone saw it and called the animal ambulance, but she had already died at arrival. Her caretaker was able to tell that a few times in the days before, she had been located by GPS in the forest, and that she had been to the small lake in the recreation forest, during her last visit in the previous night , she didn't make it to get home. It is a tragic accident and we miss her terribly, so young, she was just over a year and a half old, we, her owners/caretakers and Caro Putty Tutty &myself miss her a lot
For the cat Tutty from two houses further it is incomprehensible that she is no longer there, He has been looking for her for the last weeks now, in specting all the rooms in our house .
They were already over the last year becoming a real item, where one was, the other was too.
Being tired and depressed he now goes to the cat guest room on the second floor, and stays there all day alone until evening before going home, maybe hoping she'll walk in.
I now sit often next too him in the cat guest room to give him all the attention i can give by caressing him, and try to get him into the living room to sit down with us (Caro, Putty and me), like he used to do with Gizmo.Sitting together on the porch or in the living room, we can only hope he will get over his loss soon.
The caretaker of Gizmo plans to buy a new siamees/himalayan somewhere in november.
Further the weather in september was or rain or warm with a humidity of over 80%, so have not done a lot of painting on the house.
hope we will still get a few nice weeks, to finish the work.
Been a dreadfull month.
greetings Len.
Update on Castlefest weekend
Update on Castlefest 2022
In itself it was very nice to be there again, but missed a lot of people from our age group that we normally always meet at Coffe A, when asked, not everyone got through the last 3 years unscathed, was a downer!
Furthermore, we missed quite a few exhibitors that were important for us, and bands that did stand for 2020 were a bit too much of the same and fewer artists in my opinion, from the food department missed the 2 that should be there with their skewer meat grilled with honey for which i was longing !!as indicated on the map (15 & 21)but weren't there
Saturday it was very busy, and we started at 10.00 left around 13,00 o'clock we left, went back alone at 18.00 too see Waldkaus
and the Wicker ritual for which i put the FFP2 mask on, to go through the crowds towards the stage.
en.wikipedia.org Wicker man - Wikipedia
succeeded
Will take a DA break for about 1 or 2 weeks, and will then start uploading some photo's of this 2022 Castlefest event.
greetings len.
Update Castlefest 2022
Castlefest had been cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to covid, this year it is not finished , but we will be going with our FFP-2 masks at hand, first day will be Thursday the 4th starting at 10.00 and will end in the evening of the 7th of August.
We will be prudent!
The 2019 after movie.
the site:
schedule:
Update on Castlefest 2022
In itself it was nice to be there again, but missed a lot of people from our age group that we normally always meet at Coffe A, when asked, not everyone got through the last 3 years unscathed, was a downer! Furthermore, we missed quite a few exhibitors for us, and bands that did stand for 2020 were a bit too much of the same and fewer artists in my opinion. Saturday it was very busy, and we left around 1 o'clock, went back alone at 18.00 for Waldkaus
and the Wicker ritual with FFP3 mask on to go through the crowds towards the stage.
succeeded
Will take a DA break for about one or 2 weeks, and will then start uploading photo's of this 2022 event.
Will not not a lot on DA till end of September.
greetings len.