Comet Hunter
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So last week my wife and I were invited to Edinburgh
By my son-in-law who is from Scotland to attend the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo .
The tattoo has nothing to do with ink, but it is the name of a famous annual show of military music, dance, and precision display preformed by international armed forces (including the US Army Field Band) on the esplanade of the Edinburgh Castle in Scotland
We stayed in Edinburgh for 4 days visiting various sites in the city then on the way home we flew into Paris France where we spent an additional 3 days.
One of those days we went to the WW1 battlefield and Memorial site at Belleau Wood France which is about 1 1/2 hours south of Paris. FYI this battle which took place in 1918 is where the Marines earned the title of Devil Dogs or in German “Teufelshunde”
Part of the visit to the Belieau Wood area included stopping at the famous Devil Dog fountain which is tradition for Marines to drink from the fountain which I was lucky enough to do. Visting the historic fountain was the whole point of the visit to France as I thought I would never get back to the EU to partake in this tradition.
My Travelog picture series includes images in which I will be dividing up into specific stops we visited along the way.
All comments are welcome! Although the nighttime shots were not very good as tripods were banned from use during the show.
Canon R8 using the 28 - 70 f2.8
1st stop, The day and night at the Tattoo in Edinburgh.
# 1 is a park close to the Castle entrance folks gathered before the show
# 2. Gov buildings overlooking the park
# 3. The Edinburgh Castle where you can see at the left the temporary viewing stands. Very cool experiance!
# 4, Scottish Lassey Dancers coming out of the castle with a string section right above
# 5 one of the Scottish Bands and laser light show.
# 6 lots of color and pageantry
# 7 I counted 46 bag pipes as part of the complete Scottish Band
By my son-in-law who is from Scotland to attend the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo .
The tattoo has nothing to do with ink, but it is the name of a famous annual show of military music, dance, and precision display preformed by international armed forces (including the US Army Field Band) on the esplanade of the Edinburgh Castle in Scotland
We stayed in Edinburgh for 4 days visiting various sites in the city then on the way home we flew into Paris France where we spent an additional 3 days.
One of those days we went to the WW1 battlefield and Memorial site at Belleau Wood France which is about 1 1/2 hours south of Paris. FYI this battle which took place in 1918 is where the Marines earned the title of Devil Dogs or in German “Teufelshunde”
Part of the visit to the Belieau Wood area included stopping at the famous Devil Dog fountain which is tradition for Marines to drink from the fountain which I was lucky enough to do. Visting the historic fountain was the whole point of the visit to France as I thought I would never get back to the EU to partake in this tradition.
My Travelog picture series includes images in which I will be dividing up into specific stops we visited along the way.
All comments are welcome! Although the nighttime shots were not very good as tripods were banned from use during the show.
Canon R8 using the 28 - 70 f2.8
1st stop, The day and night at the Tattoo in Edinburgh.
# 1 is a park close to the Castle entrance folks gathered before the show
# 2. Gov buildings overlooking the park
# 3. The Edinburgh Castle where you can see at the left the temporary viewing stands. Very cool experiance!
# 4, Scottish Lassey Dancers coming out of the castle with a string section right above
# 5 one of the Scottish Bands and laser light show.
# 6 lots of color and pageantry
# 7 I counted 46 bag pipes as part of the complete Scottish Band
