Oct 21: Burning the French Boat by David Mingay

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21-OCT-2005	David Mingay

Oct 21: Burning the French Boat

This evening, in celebration of Nelson seeing the off the French 200 years ago, lots of things have been set on fire. Beacons were lit all along the coast and here at Looe, as well as a beacon up on the hill, we burned the French boat. Or, rather, as we're friends with the French these days, a pile of straw bales arranged in the shape of a boat...

a point 'n' shoot I found in the woods

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Mike R		24-Oct-2005 06:29
Typically British. Some blokes killed a load of foreign blokes 200 years ago so we set fire to something on the beach 200 years later, and spend thousands of pounds on a light-show in London.

virginiacoastline		22-Oct-2005 03:17
I heard about that Trafalgar Night tradition for the first time today. . . we have a Brit DDS here and he was very enlightening about ya'all's tradition =)

Robin Reid		22-Oct-2005 00:24
I'm amazed at all the celebrations you all are having. This is nicely done in terms of lighting and still catching the fire. A toast to Lord Nelson and Hail to the Queen.

Sheena Woodhead		21-Oct-2005 22:07
Must be a southern, or a coast, thing....we've only seen the celebrations on TV.

Ray :)		21-Oct-2005 22:03
Ah! another camera to your ever growing collection.

Guest		21-Oct-2005 20:52
Beautiful photograph, well done!

Guest		21-Oct-2005 20:09
Thought I recognised that beach... some find in the woods.

Lee Rudd		21-Oct-2005 20:05
oh you had it easy! At sea level and near pubs! Nice scene

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