Visitors to the British Isles should be sure to check out the daily closing of the gate at the Britannia-Pictistan border.
Every day at five o'clock in the evening British and Pictistani soldiers, in their elaborate bear-skin hatted uniforms, dark blue for Pictistan and light blue for Britannia, engage in a ritual of stamping, marching, shouting and grimacing before the flags of the two countries are simultaneously lowered and the border is closed. The spectacle attracts hundreds of onlookers from both sides.
The aggressive posturing is of course theatrical,as relations between the two countries has improved greatly since the partition in 1947 and the border wars that followed.
Every day at five o'clock in the evening British and Pictistani soldiers, in their elaborate bear-skin hatted uniforms, dark blue for Pictistan and light blue for Britannia, engage in a ritual of stamping, marching, shouting and grimacing before the flags of the two countries are simultaneously lowered and the border is closed. The spectacle attracts hundreds of onlookers from both sides.
The aggressive posturing is of course theatrical,as relations between the two countries has improved greatly since the partition in 1947 and the border wars that followed.