places maybe i should have gone to

[John Gill]

######bagged off many places but going up to see grant road was enough to put me off and just the smell from the cages was enough .....only place i didnt bag off ......back to me old portugese hand pump......but for some reason found ceylon ok........best place in the world for sex japan ......arigato nippon

This Portuguese Hand Pump you refer to Cappy- Wasn't that Maria from the Texas Bar in Lisbon? Used to do a useful hand job whenever the red man was aboard.

[John Pruden]

my late brother went all over cuba before castro Tristan da cuna{as it was blowing up}pitcarn island real out of the way places one trip he was told for six weeks turned into 27 months I think it was a barron boat when it cleared land funnel was painted a different colour and under a different flag?jp

[cappy]

my late brother went all over cuba before castro Tristan da cuna{as it was blowing up}pitcarn island real out of the way places one trip he was told for six weeks turned into 27 months I think it was a barron boat when it cleared land funnel was painted a different colour and under a different flag?jp

#####shanghied

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates, I dont want to go to anyplace today, The world as most of us knew it has gone? This was pointed out to me in Southampton a few years ago looking for a world famous watering hole which I knew very well the dock policeman said {before his time} only the old timers talked about it ... Most of the world is the same... I stay at home with my family and friends, { for now } till its my time to go to fiddlers green got a lot of good mates there...

[John Gill]

#24- Perhaps Louis, searching for ones past can be a pointless journey sometimes. The times that we knew are gone and we have changed forever. Some places that we remember remain, but they are for the present. I have re visited places not seen for fifty years or more and wondered where the magic had gone, then realised I wore a young mans clothes then. I believe there is still a world to see out there, and while we are still able to remember where our passport is hidden and know the way to the airport, we should make the effort and see what lies beyond.
gilly

[Lou Barron]

What about the Pen & Wig Gilly

[Keith at Tregenna]

What about the Pen & Wig Gilly

There still is much time.

[Captain Kong]

I get away every winter for at least a couple of months.
Do you fancy spending a winter in the Khyber of Boltonistan?.
I would much rather be in Tahiti drinking with my mates there than here.
There are many places left on the planet that are more than worth visiting.
I never go to europe, crap. never go to Africa, crap. South America is now crap.
Australia iand NZ s a good run ashore but getting very expensive to drink there. I can buy a bottle of Hardys aUSTRALIAN wine cheaper in Bolton than I can in Oz. Singapore a bottle of Tiger beer is 11 singa dollars, = to £5.50 for a glass.

The only good place is the Pacific Islands, Polynesia. that is why I go there every year.still untouched by tourism, you dont get mugged and the people are always happy to see you.
So Louis get that wad out of the bank and go and enjoy what is left of your life, you can come with us to Polynesia next February and live,
Cheers
Brian

[Captain Kong]

Hi Louis,
Try this before you go to Fiddlers Green,........
.
.The Lap of Honour.

I went to the `Vindi`when I was a lad, ............................. [ Vindicatrix Sea Training School ]
where conditions were hard
and the food was bad,
but I walked through those gates
as tall as a man
off to my first ship bound for Japan

And now that I`ve retired and saved up my cash
once more round the world I am going to dash
to Mombasa and Java and out to Cathay
to see all my old girl friends
once more on the way

Mimi`s still waiting for me I`ve been told
I`d like to see her before she gets old
then on to see Dideh in Tanjong Patak
then fly off on a Jumbo to Hong Kong`s Kai Tak

I`ll go back to Tahiti down in the South Seas
to see my Wahine in the warm sunny breeze
Then across to see Maggie in New Zealand`s Hawkes Bay
and have a beer in Ma Gleesons* back on the way. ......................*Sailors pub in Auckland.

I`ll do the Lap of Honour round the Australian coast
to see all the girls who loved me the most,
from Thursday Island round to Sydney and Perth
they were the loveliest girls on earth

I`ll go to see Sheila and then Marylou
and call upon Sally in Woolloomooloo
then go up to Townsville to see Mary O`Keefe
where we walked hand in hand by the Great Barrier Reef

When I think of those nights by a blue lagoon
loving my girl under a tropical moon
and those happy times that we both shared.......................
my Mary`s still waiting for me so I`ve heard.

On then to Honolulu and then Frisco Bay
and up to Vancouver and down to L.A.
I`ll jump on a Greyhound across to Hoboken
to see my Jenny whose heart I had broken

In Manhattan`s Times Square and 42nd Street
there must be some girls left that I used to meet
it would be sad if I looked around
and none of my girls were there to be found.

So off I would go to old Mexico
to see my Juanita down in Tampico.
then across to see Molly in Montego Bay
and go up the Blue Mountains where we used to play

On then to Rio, Montevideo and B.A.*.......................................... *Buenos Aires
to *May Sullivan`s Bar where I used to stay
There was Rosita, Paquita and also Maria
on then to Santos and round to Bahia.

Then when I return home again
to Englands dark and dismal rain
all my memories will always stay
they are something that no one can take away

I`ll be thinking now that I`ll get a shock
on my memory trip to turn back the clock.
things won`t be the same time has moved on
the young girls I once loved have grown old and are gone.

and now that I am coming to the end of my time
I must put my memories down into rhyme.
cos when you are young life is all magic
but as you get older life becomes tragic.

but there is still some life in the old dog yet
and there`s more adventures for me to get
so I`ll be heading off into the sun
to have more excitement and plenty of fun.

It`s not for me to tend the garden and flowers
polishing the brasses , walking the dog for hours.
but to go back round the world in a blaze of glory
then I`ll come back home to write my story.

And then one day when I am old and grey
and my life`s been used up and it`s come time to pay
as I lie on my bed on my face will be a smile
I`ll just be a thinking ` it`s all been worth while.

Cheers
Brian.

[robpage]

I had a pint of Guinness a couple of years ago in the Long Bar that was $25 Singa ( £12.50 ) , I preferred the Anchor beer to the Tiger though . was told that because alcohol and cigarettes are sinful the tax imposed was regarded as a sin tax .Strange that because a Quickie was cheaper