Going Back to the Middle Ages

This weekend (June 16th & 17th) Alkmaar is celebrating Kaeskoppenstad, which I think translates as Cheese Head City. According to the local website (translated from Dutch) the city streets will revert to what it was like in the Middle Ages with sand and straw, sheep, chickens, shit, fish, fishwives, nobles, fishermen, beggars, plague, lots of music, whores, blacksmiths, shoe makers, cheese bearers, children, rope-makers, tins makers, haringkakers, potato peelings, coal, fire jugglers, town criers, fishermen, soldiers, pitch, the scaffold, Spanish soldiers, the famous Beggars in their boats in the Alkmaar canal and of course lots KAES.

Should be a good time for anyone interested.