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Showing posts with label Waterloo soldier performance. Show all posts

2 Aug 2016

SHOW AT THE WATERLOO BATTLE FIELD

Each weekend during spring and summer, Napoleon's soldiers perform a shooting show at the Lion's mount, which should attract tourists and indeed it does.



This time there were mostly English tourists sitting on the terrace of the restaurant and watching the show.




The soldiers gathered and



prepared their guns



ready to shoot



A terrible noise let people jump from their chairs or drop things,  fortunately there was no dog around, I thought I would be deaf, my ears were ringing !



The smoke had covered the soldiers and only slowly disappeared.



It stank terribly ! Fortunately not for too long.





Then they had finished and gathered for a chat, before the next performance one hour later



But meanwhile this maid brought them beer in her basket.

It had been nice to watch, but the real battle must have been terrible !




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