While the current travel restrictions are in place I have no new stories to post so what I thought that I would do is to go through my picture archives and see where I was on this day at any time in the last few travelling years.
On 9th May 2009 I was in the Portuguese city of Porto and stumbled across a military enactment – it was the two hundredth anniversary of the relief of Porto by Arthur Wellesley who entered the city in a surprise attack across the river from Vila Nova De Guia and routed the French troops who were forced to retreat east back towards Spain.
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Have Bag, Will Travel 
Nice portly . . . Porto soldiers.
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These guys were amazing and having a very good time.
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Wonderful uniforms and fantastic photos!
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Thanks Sheree, these guys were amazing, all flown in from UK for the occasion and they do it every year!
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Blimey!
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Not this year of course!
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Just love to see regimental uniforms, well, these sort anyway!
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Don’t they look smart!
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oh that guy again, he was all over Europe the dictator! others copy him later and failed too ::)
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But Bonaparte did a lot of good stuff too through his programme of reforms. I have always been rather a fan of Napoleon.
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Never a fan of dictators.
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I liked the little fella too! Though I might not have done in person. š Street party down your way yesterday, Andrew?
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Lots of people making a lot of effort. I didn’t so felt guilty about that later.
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That would be cool to see. Great costumes.
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Those guys are real fanatics!
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A good record – even if there are no doors š
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All the doors to the bars were open that day Derrick!
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Wow, don’t they look smart!
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Yes, don’t they. These guys are fanatical about detail!
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