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Thread #61220   Message #983937
Posted By: greg stephens
15-Jul-03 - 03:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bastille Day: celebrating in England?
Subject: RE: BS: Bastille Day: celebrating in England?
Re your earlier post, McGrath. Of course the English dont celebrate a National Day. National Days are for foreigners, who need that sort of thing. The only English nation wide celebration is November 5: though nobody is clear what the celebration is about. Guy Fawkes' brave attempt, or the people who stopped him? Or maybe a bit of both.
   I celebrated Bastille day by eating some camembert, French bread(made in Stoke) and drinking wine. Well, the wine was Australian actually, but we mustnt be too parochial.
Those Rowntree Fruit Bastilles are good, I like the orange ones.