Fantasy Camp - Elizabethan Village

I love working the Renaissance Faire - but it's over too soon and there are many things that you just can't do at a Faire.

So - I would love to spend a week or two in an Elizabethan village. Actually brew the ale we serve at the Inn. Tend a kitchen garden, cook over an open fire, bake bread. Re-learn how to use a drop-spindle. Feed chickens and pigs. Sit and gossip with the neighbors, sing and dance in the evenings.

So, there would be a few less pleasant aspects of this. Getting up much too early. Outdoor privies. Slaughtering and plucking the chickens. Dealing with men who think, just because legally they're in charge, that it actually works that way in daily life.

Since this is a fantasy, after all{g}, I would naturally be able to take all my Faire friends with me - and more than a few of them are good practical historians with hands-on experience with most of daily life.

In fact, some of them already have full-scale plans for just such an establishment. Alas, that land prices and local zoning make this far too much of just a fantasy.