We had our ´fancy´dinner last night in a restaraunt that shares the enclosure with the hotel. Its a beautiful restaraunt with a large fireplace in one of the rooms. All of the rooms have high vaulting ceilings with large wooden windows. The windows are especially interesting. All of them have heavy wooden shutters that close from the inside. An iron bar goes from the bottom to the top of the window. When you unlatch the window the bar turns and lifts out of a hole in the stone wall. Anyway, we feasted just like we were back in the 14th century. The meal started with a plate of different pickled items which I think included a quail egg and at least one veg. I didn´t recognize. There was ham, salamis, sausage and of course the customary
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