The Staufen “STAGES” festival, or Stadt Geschichte (city history), is kind of like a Medieval-Renaissance fair German-style. Emily and I went to Staufen to get coffee because Emily discovered a coffee roastery there, but we realized it was the same weekend as the festival, so we wandered around a town that had been transformed into something right out of A Knight’s Tale. The city is known as the Faust-Stadt, so one of the key elements of this production is a drama of Faust. We didn’t stay for that, but we did see some other dramas and interesting things.
I was particularly excited by the hurdy-gurdy, old-fashioned bagpipes, and Renaissance singing! And now Emily and I have some Costa Rica coffee to enjoy in the coming weeks.
