Kasteelfeesten Ekeren 2024

 So in what, according to the predictions, might be the final sunny saturday of the year, we set out to Ekeren to visit the Kasteelfeesten.

This year celebrating 65 years of the De Rode Ridder, a popular medieval graphic novel character.

We arrived around 14.00hrs (it is from 13.00 until 17.30) and entered through the smaller field at the back, where the jousting arena is build.  Here various knights re-enactors show of their skills on horseback for the audience.

And it was already nicely crowded.

Now, being warm, of course I needed to have some refreshment first, so enter a honeybeer from local brewery Het Perkament.

Children could get a "questing card" on which they could collect stamps of all the activities around the park, like this horseshoe throwing.

Arriving at the main field, around the castle itself, there where a lot more activities, as well as all sorts of clubs and various traders.

These where some odd people, they are painting little toy figures and playing games with them...

Walking around the venue where of course more re-enactors, all adding to the atmosphere of the event.

 

The last main event is the jousting game itself between the 4 knights that contended earlier that day in the skill tests, and then it was time to go home again after a calm day in the sun.

While nowhere near as big as The Quaeye Werelt, on which I reported of from various editions, this was actually my first visit to the Kasteelfeesten.  Due to circumstances, I almost never have that weekend the possibility to go, but 'for reasons' this year, I had!  And I remembered it actually took place that saturday lol...

But an enjoyable afternoon none the less, and hopefully one to revisit in future editions.