Monday, October 22, 2007

Predjama Castle- in one of the Slovenia caves


We had a tour of the inside and there was a great story to go along with the tour about one of the owners in the middle ages, named Erasmus. I don't remember all the details but he 'holed' up in here while knights surrounded the castle waiting for him to come out. He used to make his way through the back of the cave and eventually to the surfaced get food and would come back into the castle without being caught. While the knights were starving waiting at their post outside he would throw down some food to them to them as a 'ha-ha, you can't catch me" kind of joke. He ended up being shot while in the bathroom (the toilet room hangs over the river bank) after someone in his staff gave away his location by placing a candle in the room he was in. I'm not sure why he was wanted.

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