Fencing Tournament

I had mentioned before that the hotel at which we stayed this first night is the scene of a fencing tournament.

Above is a photo of the poster announcing this event.


We went to breakfast around 9:30 and we could hear the fencing tournament taking place on the mezzanine above us. We watched for a bit. The picture below shows the set up for adaptive fencing. The athletes use a special chair for this that is bolted into place. Then the referee determines the athletes are the right distance from each other for the fencing match.

The video below is the best I could do for one of the matches.

I really enjoy stumbling into "life" when I travel. After all in life we don't spend all our time in museums and visiting historic sites. We do other things.

We will be be traveling by train and bus for the next couple of days and will be in Internet "off" places.