Showing posts with label fireworks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fireworks. Show all posts

Monday, November 9, 2009

Remember remember, the fifth of November!

Friday (the night before two full days of weekend work) found us on a bus travelling north of the city into the darkness of country roads, finding Dongao Island and a murky and beautiful moonrise.
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The night last was the fifth of November, 403 years or so since Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up British Parliament. It's become popularised by V for Vendetta and all the rage with Brits. Organised by the local ex pat bar, Ryan's (that is to say, not very organised), some of us had to take a second bus, and missed out on some parts of the festivities. That's not to underscore that it was a good time; sausages and a free limit of beer.

Heather, Kristen, and I posed by a statue, and in front of what some Chinese girl was doing I can only assume was a form of mating dance.
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Bats abound the skies at dusk, sometimes fluttering within feet of passersby. This little guy kept returning to the great bonfire, so I was able to get a shot.
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As the night wore on, with no cap on the drinking, some people were affected by the group mentality; one Brit even suggested he'd jump the fire with his motorbike. Luckily, he was too drunk, and fell over.
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One fellow fell into the fire
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just kidding :) that's the Guy Fawkes effigy thrown onto the fire to celebrate the anarchistic holiday.

To cap it off, fireworks! being so close made them seem quite beautiful.
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I think this one went off a little early
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