Knights for Freedom

I have an idea for a charity event. It’s called Knights for Freedom and this is how it works.

It’s a sponsorship based event where up to 50 people dress up as knights, take themselves, their equipment and their horses over to France and ride a pre-arranged route through the French countryside planting a freedom banner in every village they come across.

For each planted banner (essentially a taken village) sponsors cough up a certain amount for the chosen charity.

Now, I’m sure that the French authorities will be really cool about this because it is a charity event so the main problems remain ones of style and logistics. For instance 50 riders all wearing different kinds of armour and the like would clash horribly so I suggest we all pick the well known Crusader style popularised in those old films, you know, white with the red cross thingy. Logistical problems I suspect will be mainly isolated to the organisation of enough of the right kind of food and drink to ship out from Dover. Knights need proper beer, though I suspect wine can be picked up along route.

We can even arrange to have some mock battles with local villagers. You know where they come out with their farm implements all shouting and screaming and what have you and we ride through them with the slashing and the chopping. All with foam covered weapons of course. Immense fun for both sides and all in a good cause.

I’m sure it could be made to work.

Who will ride with me?

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap...