05-27-2006, 03:20 PM
Hi guys
was reading just the other day an ariticle on an italian newspaper about summer camps in the U.S., about them being a loved american tradition and how over the recent years adult summer camps have become a huge business. In them (frequently theme camp; e.g. rock-star camps, western camps, ...) adults behave for a couple weeks-month as teenagers if not as children, just to live out some old but never dead fantasy.
I immediately thought of a limes summer camp, a "roman frontier life".
- basic boot camp,
- drilling, marching, duties,
- in same area a mirror germanic summer camp with germanic martial life-style of an alemanni war-band
- "fighting" the opponent to see if discipline and drill can win over brave brute individualism
bye bye
just having a fantasy. I am too old but would be really tempted to sign up for a month. I could lose weight, get some muscle back, learn how to dig a latrine, setup a tent, start a fire, cook a meal, shove a scutum in the groin of a big yelling germanic (the are still many that still dicend into Italy during the summer months, and the vast majority are very civil and educated, more than the italian average, but occasionally there are some drink too much and I would just love to...)
was reading just the other day an ariticle on an italian newspaper about summer camps in the U.S., about them being a loved american tradition and how over the recent years adult summer camps have become a huge business. In them (frequently theme camp; e.g. rock-star camps, western camps, ...) adults behave for a couple weeks-month as teenagers if not as children, just to live out some old but never dead fantasy.
I immediately thought of a limes summer camp, a "roman frontier life".
- basic boot camp,
- drilling, marching, duties,
- in same area a mirror germanic summer camp with germanic martial life-style of an alemanni war-band
- "fighting" the opponent to see if discipline and drill can win over brave brute individualism
bye bye
just having a fantasy. I am too old but would be really tempted to sign up for a month. I could lose weight, get some muscle back, learn how to dig a latrine, setup a tent, start a fire, cook a meal, shove a scutum in the groin of a big yelling germanic (the are still many that still dicend into Italy during the summer months, and the vast majority are very civil and educated, more than the italian average, but occasionally there are some drink too much and I would just love to...)
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."