{"id":2742,"date":"2014-04-26T06:19:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2014-04-26T06:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T11:19:08","slug":"anzac-day-montevideo-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2742","title":{"rendered":"Anzac Day Montevideo 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

We rose early\u00a0Friday morning\u00a0to attend the 7am Anzac Day Dawn \u00a0Service arranged by the Australia-Uruguay Camera\/Chamber, and\u00a0actually, although we were prompt starting in the cold wind, ‘Dawn’ was prolly technically about 15 minutes earlier.\u00a0 When John Prentice began with the introduction to the observance, we could look out through the distinctive naval theme sculpture behind him\u00a0at the Plaza Vigilio, Punta Gorda,\u00a0 and on the horizon count 14 ships waiting to enter the port,\u00a0\u00a0which equalled the number of attending souls,\u00a014.\u00a0 Our honorary consul Diego Paysee laid the wreath, and John Shaw, next to John P (in black) later performed the Last Post and the Reveille\/Rouse.<\/p>\n

\"Anzac<\/a><\/p>\n

The piper, Gonzalo, played stirringly, and in my conversation with him\u00a0afterwards, he\u00a0had very complementary words about the Victorian Police Band pipers of years gone by,\u00a0and one of my own favourites,\u00a0The Bad Piper<\/a> whom he described as a highly accomplished technically brilliant piper – and so say all of us!!!! I’m a total fan, by the way.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Anzac <\/a><\/p>\n

At the solemn stage of the observance, yours truly is pictured reading the poem ‘On Flanders Fields’ that I always seem to get roped in to read; I know, it doesn’t look as if I am speaking, but that is just when Graciela took the shot. I got through it all without faltering – phew.<\/p>\n

\"Anzac<\/a><\/p>\n

The three young Aussie lads\u00a0appearing in these two pics, were visiting Montevideo from Newcastle.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I didn’t get their names, but\u00a0Marianna,\u00a0the Kiwi holding their flag might have.\u00a0\u00a0Their parents would have been proud of them.\u00a0\u00a0 They were due to leave the country a few hours after this, but they found time to come along.\u00a0 Travel well boys.\u00a0 It was cold this morning, as I am sure it was in many of the places that Aussies and Kiwis gathered for observances and marches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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