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| Our favorite was the American float (of course!) |
We had the pleasure to be here in Jersey during their annual event that started back in 1902 called “The Jersey Battle of Flowers”.
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It grew from an event in 1902 to celebrate the Coronation of King Edward VII.
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| Wizard of Auz (for Australia) All the “Oz” characters were onboard |
The parade was so popular that it was held again the following year and named “The Battle of Flowers.”
The 1952 battle was special because not only did it help celebrate the accession of Queen Elizabeth II, but it was also the 50th anniversary of the event, watched by more than 40,000 spectators and included more than 100 entries.
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| The Ghost Bride. The stained glass on the windows were all flowers |
The largest ever crowd for the Battle – over 60,000 people – was in 1969.
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| We loved the colors on this float |
The parade is so popular that they have been included on postal stamps as well.
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| Save the bees |
The Battle of Flowers festival consists of music, funfairs, dancers, majorettes and a parade of flower floats alongside various street entertainers.
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| Cute little bugs! |
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| All the little kids on the floats were adorable. |
There were quite a few there today but probably nowhere near the record amount in 1969.
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| Transformers. He almost blended in with all the confetti |
The major floats are usually produced by the parishes of Jersey. We are currently staying in Grouville Parish and during one of our daily while walks we saw them building the floats.
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| Apollo |
We stopped yesterday while they were putting the flowers on and helped them.
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| Grouville Float – this is the one we helped prepare flowers for |
It was a great experience and we were so excited to be able to participate, although only for an hour or two.
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| The tiger was huge! |
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| The penguins on this float were so cute |
This makes it easier for the person putting it on the float to grab and glue it to the float. We did walk away with a couple of green fingernails.
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| Chewbacca |
They spend all night to get the float finalized and drive it at approximately 5:30 am the next morning to the area of the parade that doesn’t start until 2:30 pm.
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| Other Star Wars characters |
All I keep thinking is WOW, that’s a lot of work! But, after sitting through the parade and seeing the finished floats, bands playing and dancers, they have a lot to be proud of. This was well done and well planned.
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| Annie |
Bummer! I think that would we be awesome! There is a second parade the following night. Called the Moonlight Parade, the floats are decorated in lights and the evening ends with a large fireworks display.
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| AeroSparx – amazing coordination and beauty in the sky |
Depends on how my camera does, hopefully either it or my iphone will produce a few good ones. The planes are supposed to have some sort of night routine as well. We’ll see
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| Rock Concert |
Our time is coming to an end here on Jersey. We will truly miss this island but will move on to London next Wednesday. We plan to visit the Jersey war tunnels before we leave so I’ll have another post to include it.
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| Found another Go Wild Gorilla |
May God bless you always!
Chuck & Lea Ann
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The floats are beautiful!! What a great event to catch! This was a great stay:)
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yes it was. we are sad to leave! we would recommend this island to anyone that want to get away to a beautiful island.
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The floats are beautiful!! What a great event to catch! This was a great stay:)
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yes it was. we are sad to leave! we would recommend this island to anyone that want to get away to a beautiful island.
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