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Battered Burns’ world of fans
TINA LIPTAI
11 Mar, 2011 04:00 AM
THE unmistakably robust sound of bagpipes filled the air as Camperdown welcomed some very special visitors who travelled all the way from Russia with a love for Robert Burns and his poetry.
Their enthusiasm was palpable as they got up close to the town’s statue of Scotland’s favourite son before performing a selection of excerpts of their favourite Burns poems to a gathered crowd.
The nine students, aged from 13 to 16, three teachers and two parents from school 606 Pushkin in St Petersburg were visiting Melbourne and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to see the world’s oldest surviving statue of Burns, who died in 1796.
Joined on the day trip by members of the Robert Burns Club of Melbourne, who also funded the bus trip, the group of Burns enthusiasts were w... Читать дальше » Категория: Австралия | Просмотров: 96 | Добавил: school-606 | Дата: 27.03.2011 | Комментарии (0)