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    Not too long after a good tourist spot ? if tourists could of got there Des, would have been to frequent the Sinai desert alongside the canal where there were thousands of Egyptian army boots for those who fancied a pair if they searched hard enough for a matching pair. proving the theory that one can run faster in bare feet than in boots. Bet Ivan took advantage of the biggest rag bag he ever saw , must have been like Xmas . Cheers JS
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    Quote Originally Posted by j.sabourn View Post
    Bet Ivan took advantage of the biggest rag bag he ever saw , must have been like Xmas . Cheers JS
    The boots were all too big for me John, I only have narrow feet, and I was but a wee lad, gave the rag bag a miss on this occasion, too many brown stains on the contents

    If you think wet grain strum boxes smell, try walking through a bombed cemetery, managed to pick up a couple of Chez bayonets from El-Gamil airfield and smuggle them back through customs as souvenirs, but my mum, god bless her, handed them into the local police station when I was away on my next trip, she said they didn't suit the other things in her china cabinet!, probably adorning some coppers china cabinet. Some photos on site somewhere, although we were forbidden to have cameras, but we were young and couldn't understand the rules, but would have been in deep dodo if they had been found, how the years pass

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    That’s how most of us learned Ivan , after a few throw ups got over it and never spoke too much about it. My first trip to sea the second week was spent 8 hours a day watching a dead body in the steering flat on passage to Cuba.
    A few years later had to sew a couple up and told to go easy on the canvas. Over the years and other personal jobs on the dearly departed one built up a sense of smell to the sweetness of dead flesh . Something one never forgets but learns not to talk about unless to someone with similar experiences and sometimes finishes up in a drinking contest with all the camsais , salutez , Cheers , and up your knicker leg. What about the bootlaces were they not worth salvaging or didn’t they have any ? I wear elastic ones these days cuts out bending down to put my shoes on, or saves the wife putting them on for me . The wonders of science . Cheers JS
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    For that simple reason John I have not worn socks for over ten years.
    As to shoes, mainly sliders for about 9 months of the year.
    Very easy to put on.
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    John
    You wouldn't be wearing sliders down here in the last month, it has been struggling to get above minus; and that is during the day, night time freezing with snow in the Alps. Been trying to cut the hedge but I can't get my fingers to squeeze the trigger on the hedge cutter their to stiff with cold
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    Des mate you are not alone on that one.
    Heard from my niece in London the other day, got to all of 1 degree after about minus 10 at night.
    London covered so it mus have been cold, saw some TV footage, brought back memories of the winter of 1963, Boxing Day to end of March, thankfully away but for ten days of that lot.
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    i was on the esso york we were one of the last convoys through the canal homeward bound before they closed it.remember seeing all the gun emplacements and soldiers.glad to get through with no problems

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    I bought a bottle once but am sure it was weak tea. On a tanker my colleagues bought a bottle and put a bit in my lunch time beer every day from a suez to the Gulf. Told me much later so cannot say whether it worked or not.
    Do you remember the green backed porn stories where every other page was upside down which was so exciting to a first tripper. And the photos taken in the 20,s or earlier.
    Hey mister. You want pictures. What kind. Feeeelthy pictures. 1959 but mind it well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Harris View Post
    I bought a bottle once but am sure it was weak tea. On a tanker my colleagues bought a bottle and put a bit in my lunch time beer every day from a suez to the Gulf. Told me much later so cannot say whether it worked or not.
    Do you remember the green backed porn stories where every other page was upside down which was so exciting to a first tripper. And the photos taken in the 20,s or earlier.
    Hey mister. You want pictures. What kind. Feeeelthy pictures. 1959 but mind it well.
    I never knew anywhere up the Gulf where you could get to test it out for real.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Des Taff Jenkins View Post
    Before Nasser did the deed, we were going through the Canal and saw all the barges tied up ready to be sunk when the British attacked, so obvious. ended up going around the Cape to get home, with the price of our cargo going up every mile.
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    I was in Famagusta on the Mv Flaminian during the crisis, waiting to run jerrycans of petrol to Alexandria, it never happened,. thank goodness Jim 639411.

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