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2nd September 2008, 08:31 PM
#1
Best & worst place.
Dont know if it been done before what is the best & worse you have been to here or abroad. For me its Midlesbrough the worst [no disrespect to the people] . the best is Kingston Jamacia.
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3rd September 2008, 12:33 PM
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Recollections
Best have to be Mount Maunganui and Wellington(great time with a lovely young lady who I still hanker after)Worst has got to be Assab in Ethiopia,closely followed by Nouakchott,Maretania.Alan
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3rd September 2008, 01:26 PM
#3
best and worse
my best place is wellington,new zealand,where i met some good sixteen year olds.
my worst would have to be punta arenas,chile,so cold everthing shrivelled.
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3rd September 2008, 03:09 PM
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Auckland in general,One Tree hill in particular!!!!
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3rd September 2008, 07:23 PM
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best &worst
Wellington was fine the first time I Went there 3 days later I was up the clinic the next time I was up there again for ddt powder kept it hidden next time
Last edited by Doc Vernon; 24th October 2009 at 11:37 PM.
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4th September 2008, 01:44 AM
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Best places would be Tamatave, madagascar for the drink and woman and Great lakes for the scenery .. Worst place would be Point Wilson, near Geelong. Just stuck out end of a pier about a mile long to unload ammunition
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4th September 2008, 06:32 AM
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Piareaus has to be one of the better places I visted as was Genoa. But Sydney and Montys would have to be up there with the best. There was also a very good one in Brisbane near the freezer works.
Happy daze John in Oz.
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4th September 2008, 10:55 AM
#8
i think wellington was also one of my best. thanks to the student nurses at wellington general. bluff was first. can't remember a worst, enjoyed them all.cheers. alf
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4th September 2008, 11:02 AM
#9
Cant Pick!
Well for me there wasnt any Best or Worst,as all the Ports and places i saw and visited held a new something for me,it was a whole New World out there then,and everything to me was just awe inspiring!
A young Lad leaving home to see so much,well what more could i have wished for!
I was just so thankfull for the lucky break i got!
Cheers
Vernon
Later on in life though there were some "Worse" places!! haha!
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4th September 2008, 11:30 AM
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Difficult Choice
I can’t really say that any particular place was the worst that I visited. Whenever and wherever possible I used to try and see much of the places as I could.
My year aboard the Oriana probably holds the most memories of places visited, as with ESSO the overseas visits were to oil terminals in the Gulf and even with Ellermans most of the trips were to Gulf ports, primarily Abadan.
Places that do bring back particular memories include Acapulco, Vancouver, LA (visited Disneyland), Trinidad and Sydney.
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