TRAFALGAR DAY

[AndrewJ]

Anyone planning any remembrances or "festivities" (if that's the correct word) for tomorrow? I won't be able to attend but would like to hear about any scheduled.


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[l'escargot]

Careful, don't want to upset the French do we?

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[AndrewJ]

seems a bit late to worry about that. besides, what's right is right..

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[Neraida]

Thats an idea! Lets go attack the French Navy?!

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[cgull]

I am flying my union flag from the flagpole in my back garden!

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[whiskerstay]

I approached my boatbuilder to enquire whether they could fit a full deck of cannon in time, but apparently cutting the flaps would take too long. I fear the only broadside I'll be managing will be of the Southwold variety.

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[sailbadthesinner]

there is a service/parade in brum this afternoon
and a bigger one scheduled for next year
it is at Nelson's statue (at St Martin's church i think)


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[AndrewJ]

Will have to try and make that one. I understand there is a gift shop at Greenwich that has alot of Nelson stuff?


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[Stemar]

Did anyone see the thing on the news the other day... some bright Gallic spark wanting us to change the names of Waterloo Station and Trafalgar Square?

No mention of them renaming the Gare d'Austerlitz though...

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[ditchcrawler]

Guess what significant date the RYA desk diary does not include,& they have now stopped giving it to members as the free allocation.Might stop my membership now.

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[JamesS]

How about Gare de Agincourt?

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[peterb]

Cruising Association have a Trafalgar Day dinner.

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[Birdseye]

Had the usual Trafalgar day dinner at our club, nautical fancy dress, menu as it might have been in Nelson's day, and lots of Pussers rum - with the usual final toast of "death to the French".

Like to think the toast is not serious, but after a few rums, some members say it with a bit too much conviction! /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[AuntyRinum]

<the usual final toast of "death to the French". Like to think the toast is not serious,>

Don't worry about it. A few years ago in Cherbourg, I fell in with a group of French naval officers who quite seriously finished dinner with the toast - "Merde a la Reine d'Anglettere!"
They said it was traditional to do this every evening in their mess.

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[Lizzie_B]

Actually, it was an English Euro-bureaucrat who suggested it!!!! Shame on him!!!! Still he has a French wife and guess where he lives!!!!! Irony is he claimed to be speaking for the majority of young French people, but you don't see the French showing any sign of deconstructing the myths and cult of Napoleon worship!!!! Maybe Waterloo and Trafalgar are a threat to their fantasies.

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[peterb]

Waterloo

Try going up the Arc de Triomphe and asking about Waterloo or the Peninsular War battles.

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