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Date Posted: 19:05:30 02/19/07 Mon
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Kathryn Atkin/Mckenna
's message, "Re: Late 70's cruise" on 18:57:28 02/19/07 Mon
>>The cruise was in 77 or 78 I think.
>>Flew Laker airbus to
>>Malta,Alexandria,Haifa,Antalya,Corfu, Navarino Bay and
>>back from Venice...Our school was Gleadless Valley
>>,Sheffield ...learnt how to play pontoon, some dodgy
>>camel whips with knife handles...an experience never
>>to be forgotten,saw places you only dreamt of and
>>often come across a pen with the ship in the handle at
>>my mums...Good times
>
>I was on that one- Jan/Feb 1978 (Ashleigh School,Sheffield) flew to Malta and came back from Venice. We were supposed to be going to Rhodes but it was too choppy to disembark so we went to Navarino Bay instead- and I still havent managed to find it on a map!
I almost bought one of those dodgy camel whips but swapped it for a leather one in time...still got most of the mementos...brought them home for my mum - and somewhere I have photos, my sickbag, badges and study guide complete with various /autographs/ from others who were on the cruise too. The food was lousy, I got airsick, seasick
>and homesick and survived the fortnight on Revels and
>7-Up. Remember they served food up in those grotty
>metal mess tins? And we werent allowed anywhere near first class- I recently saw photos of the posh accommodtion- nothing like our grotty dorms! Great times tho, I wouldnt trade them for the world.
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