This is the penultimate of four successive posts dealing with our Autumn Festival - for fear that I am boring the pants off my readers. We might only have 25,000 residents, but Armidale can sure stage a parade. Today's was several km long and took perhaps 45 minutes to pass by the large crowd lining the route snaking through the CBD. Displays included lots of pipe bands - it seemed for a while that there were more here than in the whole of Scotland, all dressed up appropriately. There were vintage cars like the one shown; people on various forms of wheels - bikes (pedalled in the case shown by a giraffe), a monocycle, wheelchairs; floats from all Armidale's multitudinous schools; displays from the University of New England (including the School of Rural Medicine pictured); heaps of displays mounted by community groups - including police and emergency services; and lots of people representing various ethnic groups who received strong applause.
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