On Your Next Trip to Europe Why Not Make It a Trip into the Past?

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Make It an Extraordinary Trip to Europe

Days of Yore Travel is for Adventurers who want "hands on" experience with the past.

Dine Like Kings and Queens

Days of Yore Travel makes your trip a culinary experience and a memory with friends.

Make History by Re-discovering History

Days of Yore Travel can help you enjoy the archaeological experience.

Get Up Close to Real Treasure

Days of Yore Travel can show you how you can be part of a discovery team.

Turn Museum Visits into Experiences

Days of Yore Travel can bring you together with experts who want to make history an experience for you.

Re-Living History Where It Originally Took Place

Days of Yore Travel will bring you face to face with living history.

Learn Traditional Craftsmanship from Experienced Masters

Days of Yore Travel can help you meet craftsman who still keep the old traditions alive.

Celebrate Like You Never Have Before

Days of Yore Travel can show the kind of parties you usually on see on television.

Discover Your Secret Love for Long-Lost Things Cherished

Days of Yore Travel brings you together with people who take pleasure in showing the beauty of by-gone days of yore.

Experience Thousand-Year-Old Cities Where It All Began

Days of Yore Travel takes you there.

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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Top 10 Romantic Castles - Trendelburg - Rapunzel's Castle

Well, it's almost Valentine's Day - so Days of Yore Travel would like to present you with the Top 10 Romantic Castles you can stay in. Here's our Second Choice:

No. 2 Rapunzel’s Castle – Trendelburg



Trendelburg - The Real Rapunzel Castle

The Trendelburg Castle was built in 1300, near the city of Kassel. Purportedly this is the real McCoy – the original true Rapunzel Castle right out of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

In reality, it was built by Conrad III von Schöneberg, to secure the road between Kassel and Bremen. Like Sababurg, it’s located on the Fairy Tale Road, on the other side of Reinhard’s Forest.

The impressive 125 foot high “Rapunzel” tower was added after the castle burned down in 1456. The Grimm Brothers added Rapunzel (the German word for lamb’s lettuce) to their collection of fairy tales, after a woman from this area told them the handed-down medieval tale of Sleeping Beauty in 1810. The forest surrounding (Reinhardswald) is full of so many old trees, you will believe it’s haunted.

Unlike in the fairy tale, the castle played a strategic role in the Thirty Years’ War, and was destroyed by General Tilly’s Croatian soldiers. It wasn’t until 1996 that it was finally purchased by an investment company and finally restored, making it one of the most romantic castle hotels in Europe.

Romantic Castle Chambers

The rooms all have “castle chamber” décor, especially for romantic couples in mind. The hotel gives special attention to details like rose petals in the bath, and bedding arranged with a romantic flair. Naturally, four-posted canopy beds at the crowning touch to this romantic castle hotel. 

This hotel is perfect for people who want the fairy tale experience with romance, comfort and luxury. Here’s a sample of one of the specials they have at Rapunzel’s castle:
  • 2 overnights in one of the fairy tale rooms
  • Royal castle lord‘s breakfast
  • They welcome you with the heavenly smell and taste home-baked muffins
  • Fluffy bath-robe and comfortable slippers
  • Aroma bath in your fairy bath in your chambers
  • A fairy tale heavenly relaxing massage (25 minutes)
  • 3-course dinner with an "enchanted" main entry
  • 5-course dinner in "magical" candle-light for romantics
  • An enchanting day in the land of fairy tales is awaiting for your discover
  • You can arrive as of 12:00 pm (upon request)
  • You can take a late check-out up until 4:00 pm (upon request)
  • Free parking in front of the castle
Dine like Kings & Queens

Couple price for a double room including bathtub -
Starting at 496 €   
 

 Extras (per couple) :   
  • Four-posted canopy bed or residence in the tower    € 40,00
  • Honeymoon Suite       € 80,00
  • Residence in the Royal Suite    € 120,00
Spoil yourself like a real Princess or Prince
And for super-romantics, they have more extras:
  • A temperate sauna (150°F) for cold winter days – 30 €/hr/couple – private use: 75 €/hr/couple.
  • Pamper yourself in their “Princess Mouse Skin” Salt Room (24 € /hr /couple)
  • Relaxing massages starting at 35 € / person, or hot stone massages 75 € / person.

Castle servents awaiting your commands, See Rapunzel let down her hair, or haunted Reinhart's Forest

Naturally, no romantic trip to this castle would be complete without a castle event, such as fairy tale reenactments, feast for the knights, or a trip to the haunted Reinhart's forest or the nearby Tierpark, which has many of the legendary animals right out of fairy tales.

Sound irresistibly romantic? To find out more, send an email to Days of Yore Travel,
or the Trendelburg Hotel at: info@burg-hotel-trendelburg.com

Address:
Burg Hotel Trendelburg
Steinweg 1
34388 Trendelburg
Germany
Telefon +49 (0)56 75 - 90 90
Telefax +49 (0)56 75 -93 62
Website: http://www.burg-hotel-trendelburg.com/en/

Don't Miss These Other Romantic Castles:

No. 1 - Sababurg - Sleeping Beauty's Castle













Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Learn All About Making Knights' Armor - Up Close

One of the things Days of Yore Travel does is to take you up close to the Middle Ages. Instead of touring a museum and staring at suits of armor behind glass cases, you can meet an artisan smith and watch him create real armor, just like in the Middle Ages. Meet Peter Müller from the Plattnerwerkstatt in Orschweier. He is one of the last people in Europe who smiths suits of armor exactly like they did in the Middle Ages. In a group you can tour his workshop to watch how flat sheets of metal were turned into knights’ helmets with visors.

Peter Müller not only gives courses in how to become a armory blacksmith, but also has written a number of expertise books in German on the subject, and will be happy to take on your custom order for any kind of body armor from the 1st through the 17th centuries - whether you want it for Re-enactment, Living History, Renaissance Faires, Larp or as an impressive heirloom to have in your home.

What’s the name of this place?
Plattenwerkstatt in Orschweier in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
 
What is it?
An authentic armory blacksmith workshop.

What will I see here?
How suits of armor are made by an expert.

Can I buy real knight’s armor here?
Yes, you can! Custom-made to fit your body.

Will he show me how to make something?
Yes, he will.

Can I learn to be a real Middle Ages Armory Blacksmith?
Well, it’s not something you can learn in a one-day tour, but he’s willing train you in a separate course if you like.

How can I get in touch with these people?
You can write them an e-mail here.



Friday, November 21, 2014

Live a Day in the Tannenburg Living Castle

Don’t you wish you could travel back into time and experience what life in a castle was really like? Now you can! Your tour group can spend the day (exclusively) at Tannenburg Castle and turn back the pages of time. Whether you enjoy a sumptuous meal fit for a King or learn about work in a 14th century castle, there is something of fascinating interest for everyone. Tannenburg Castle is different from other castles you might visit in Europe, because it’s a “Living Castle”. Once you pass the castle gates, you’ll be transported direct in the Middle Ages. You’ll be mustered by gate guards, see knights practice fencing, and watch peasants and craftsmen go about their daily work. Later in the Great Hall, you be served by servants and entertained by troubadours. This isn't a do-not-touch tour down roped-off aisles, but a hands-on experience inside a real living castle, exclusively for the tour group. Here you can take a meal just like in the 14th century, stand ring-side at a sword fight, feel the heat of the metal being hammered by the blacksmith, or even get your hands dirty plastering half-timbered walls. All part of Days of Yore Travel.

More fanstastic photos on the Tannenburg Castle Website