The sun came out timidly in Gloucestershire for the most anticipated race of the year. But all week has been raining on the hill of cheese. More wood. More mud for the participants.
"One to Be Ready
Two To Be steady
Three to prepare
Four To Be off."
Like all last Monday in May, the master of ceremonies gives the output for the 200 yards down Cooper's Hill ... You know, chasing a cheese. A beautiful, round and dressed Double Gloucester.
The experts agree: some say that the festival commemorates the attacks from the top of the hill threw the Britons against the Roman occupier who founded the ancient Glevum - quesazos wanted to kill? . Others say that the Phoenicians passed through the island around 1000 BC and left an inheritance of fertility rite-being Phoenicians, rather it would be a way to sell more cheese. What if you are testing is that in the eighteenth century the tradition was maintained, to the delight of all rejoice Mason. Our Mason.