What day to be at home sick! I had planned for weeks to attend the Anzac commemoration parade today, but bronchitis holds back for no man.
And what an event it turns out I missed. Beautiful weather; big crowds; loads of WW1 trucks, buses, tanks and horse-drawn guns; young period soldiers who actually looked the part; a sea of red poppies; stirring haka from schoolboys as the parade passed ... wow!
Watch the above video from Stuff, or go to the New Zealand Herald to see these (and more) photos:
And what an event it turns out I missed. Beautiful weather; big crowds; loads of WW1 trucks, buses, tanks and horse-drawn guns; young period soldiers who actually looked the part; a sea of red poppies; stirring haka from schoolboys as the parade passed ... wow!
Watch the above video from Stuff, or go to the New Zealand Herald to see these (and more) photos:
Wellington volunteer figure painter Phil Sirvid also sent me the following photos, which he is happy to share here on the blog.
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