Two soldiers guard the memorial day and night in one hour shifts, ignoring the tourists. Every now and again they swap sides, starting and stopping simultaneously. I think I eventually worked out what the secret signal was, but I don’t recall now. (It was twenty years ago, cut me some slack…)
I notice they have presented a brief tribute to the Isle of man here in passing. (Three legs, geddit?)
P.S. If you haven’t worked it out, it is in Athens, Greece.
Great photo. No, I didn’t work it out!
Comment by Welshcakes Limoncello — August 21, 2008 @ 12:35 am
These photos are really good for scanned ones. But the shoes are not all going in the same direction Sir.
Comment by jmb — August 21, 2008 @ 5:01 am
JMB, you are right, it wouldn’t make a good arse kicking machine unlike the Isle of Man thingy.
I’ve noticed a couple of my photos that I have dug out to blog on are showing signs of chemical breakdown so I must get round to scanning them properly.
The scanner is a £50 all-in-one Epson DX7400 that I bought at ASDA recently. It doesn’t need the PC turned on to work as a copier and you can stick memory cards in it as well so it is quite flexible.
Welshcakes, it might have been blinking but I can’t really remember now. I know they had a handshake acknowledgement sequence with their secret signals so that they both started on time.
Comment by Shades — August 21, 2008 @ 6:48 pm