That sounds like it would be quite interesting. And I bet some of those museums are just fantastic, so many wonderful artefacts.

Yeah, it does take a bit of time (and money!) to get a good kit together. I got my sword and dagger at mates rates, but it was still a lot, but so very worth it. One of my friends who does Imperial Roman reenacting has two sets of full Roman armour that he made himself, it took him *ages* to do, but the results are amazing. And another friend has just finished his four year project of Sassanid armour for mounted combat. It looks phenomenal, he really looks as if he's stepped out of an illuminated manuscript.

The Byzantine Emperor reenactor above has done years and years of research, too - he went to the anniversary Battle of Hastings reenactment some years ago, before leaving Australia, he got a historically accurate haircut and then had to fill in all sorts of paperwork to get his weapons and armour over to England and back, but he had an amazing time and made the rest of us quite jealous!