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Re-post of an earlier mention. 52 years ago today I boarded a ship in Fremantle harbo(u)r for a 4-week trip to England. We missed the

Posted by Meg (aka Mojave) Apr 24 '16, 08:33

evening tide and didn't actually sail until the next morning. It was almost exactly 16 years since I'd arrived in that same harbor as a 3-year-old.

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you should come back one day. -- nm - mafic Apr 24, 09:21
*remembers where he was 52 years ago* -- nm - budice Apr 24, 08:42
4 weeks actually sounds pretty fast for a trip like that ... wonder what speed the ship was going -- nm - Beryllium Apr 24, 08:40 9
- There's still a weird holdover in Australian labour law from then. Work for a company for 10 years, you get long service leave. 9-12 weeks (depending - mafic Apr 24, 09:26 1
  - Nice -- nm - Beryllium Apr 24, 09:27
- Not fast enough :) The first 10 days we saw nothing but ocean - until we reached the North African coast. -- nm - Meg Apr 24, 08:50 6
  - Then it was a steady stream of pirates and swashbucklers. No doubt this is where the Legend of Meg began. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 24, 08:51 5
    - A professor on a sabatical saw the resulting carnage and upon return to school dubbed the nascent football team the Crimson Tide -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 24, 12:47
    - Oh, you took the Suez Canal? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 24, 08:52 3
      - Right, through Suez, on to their home port of Genoa for an overnight stop, Cannes, and Southampton. -- nm - Meg Apr 24, 09:02 2
        
        4 weeks makes more sense, then. Also, I had no idea Suez was finished in the 1860s. That's impressive. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 24, 09:07 1
        
        First one was actually around 1850 *BC* -- (link) - Meg Apr 24, 09:23

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