Sunday 4 November 2012

Yellow bonfires - Guy Fawkes' night

This is an awful picture but it is the only one I have to illustrate the celebrations of Guy Fawkes' night in Aberdeen! It was taken on the 5th of November (2009) at the beach where lots of people concentrated to see the bonfires. This year, since Friday that we can hear fireworks in Aberdeen, but the big firework will be tomorrow evening! And what are British people celebrating? They celebrate Guy Fawkes' arrest and execution due to an attempt to kill protestant King James I of England (and bomb the parliament) in 1605. His objective was to trigger King James' replacement by a Catholic king. The 5th of November was kept as a thanksgiving day for the divine intervention in the King's survival and since then, people celebrate with (rather noisy) bonfires!

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