I was quite excited about today, what an occasion to be
attending. We shall never see anything
of the likes like this in South Australia.
The patriotism over here far outways anything we have for Australia
Day. There is bunting (small flags
strung together) everywhere, hardly a house is without it. Just red, white and blue everywhere, most people
were wearing red, white and blue. Even I
wore a red jacket!!! We drove to
Haywards Heath and caught the train to London from there. We had to change trains twice, but travel is
easy here. It was a cold day and a bit
drizzly fortunately we were to be inside for the day.
What a great position we had. We were on a first floor apartment, just down
from where the Queen boarded her small boat and where all the rowing boats were
mustered to start. So we saw all the
boats except the large boat the Royal Family was on. There was quite a few Aussies here and lots
of wonderful food was laid on by our host and hostess Alistair and
Natasha. It is a pity it rained so much
during the flotilla. The boats were
great and so much effort was put in by the people involved.
We left around teatime to get the train back to Haywards
Heath, then drove back home.
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