Where was your first travel?

[Norton]

When I was 20, I got sent to Yokosuka, Japan to visit the USS Midway, the POS.

Aside from a stopover in Pearl, my first international trip as well. Was on a destroyer tender.

[misskit]

I went on a high school senior trip to Nassau on this tub. The Italian crew is what I remember the most. The second thing is being seasick and how bad the cabin smelled. It was in the inner bowels of that very old ship.

[Norton]

Da Nang.

Aged 17.

1968.

Just North of there a couple years ahead of you.

[Hugh Cow]

My first ever trip outside of Australia was a cruise to New caledonia and Fiji. Never been to Bali probably never will. If I want a beach and a bar full of aussies I can go to the end of my street. It's a lot cheaper.

[slimboyfat]

Must have been 9 or 10. We took a car ferry from Harwich to Esbjerg, Denmark and drove across to Copenhagen to visit my Danish grandparents and various relatives.

[Backspin]

Why lie?

have you met him ? How would you know how old the fella is

[tomcat]

...on a family trip from southern New England to Quebec at 14: my 2 years of classroom French came in handy as I impressed my parents by asking every local denizen the time and the location of the train station...

[qwerty]

I think I was 4 years old the first time we sailed from the US side of Lake St. Clair up to the Georgian Bay in Lake Huron. Most of my childhood was very boring and ordinary, but every summer we would take off for a month to sail up to Canada.

We moved to Florida when I was 9. We sailed to the Bahamas just once before my parents got divorced and my Mom moved back to California.

[Happy As Larry]

Stockholm/Vaxholm on a school exchange programme in the last year of grammar school.
I pestered my parents to be allowed to go. We never had family holidays. I usually got shipped out to a great aunt for the summer.
We certainly didn't travel overseas.
I thought it would be my one and only time to go abroad.

More than 50 countries later I am living the dream in Thailand

[DrWilly]

have you met him ? How would you know how old the fella is

[Backspin]

I think I was 4 years old the first time we sailed from the US side of Lake St. Clair up to the Georgian Bay in Lake Huron. Most of my childhood was very boring and ordinary, but every summer we would take off for a month to sail up to Canada.

We moved to Florida when I was 9. We sailed to the Bahamas just once before my parents got divorced and my Mom moved back to California.

How many days on the boat on trips like this ?

[Bogon]

have you met him ? How would you know how old the fella is

Let's do some geography, history and math all rolled into one.

Da Nang/Aged 17/1968.

This means that Lulu was born around 1951 and is now around 72 years old.

Either, he is Benjamin Button, who fought in the Vietnam war, or is not telling the truth.

I really do hope he is fibbing becuase stolen valour is seen in a bad light.

He could be telling the truth though, as I don't know, I weren't there man.

[Edmond]

How would you know

It's the accusations that hurt the most.

[aging one]

18 months old. Dhahran Saudi Arabia/Cairo/Rome/Amsterdam/London/Shannon Ireland/Iceland/Newfoundland/Nova Scotia/New York. Long trip that is now a non stop. But the old DC6B took a while longer.

[Edmond]

stolen valour

AKA Doing A Snubby. :/


:'(

[HuangLao]

Just North of there a couple years ahead of you.

....and I was just south of there a few years behind.

[armstrong]

I met Lu at last year's SAS Service Awards and can confirm it's all true.

[nidhogg]

Age 12. School trip to Switzerland for skiing.

First adult trip would be aged around 19 - backpacking around Brittany with the then girlfriend (and soon to be wife, and shortly thereafter, ex-wife).

[Norton]

....and I was just south of there a few years behind.

China Beach more east than south but good spot. Did you enjoy the surfing?

[HuangLao]

China Beach more east than south but good spot. Did you enjoy the surfing?

Charlie don't surf....

[david44]

The second thing is being seasick and how bad the cabin smelled

I did some cruising too, nice you kept the photo yet the Flavia lingers on....was your steward called Luigi tho?

[david44]

AKA Doing A Snubby. :/


:'(

IMHO

Quit digging

If I tell folks I was at Waterloo , they know its the London train station where Churchill insisted on meeting De Gaulle on arrival in London.

I was at Da Nang too ad Khe Sanh (Hamburger Hill but as an Observer later not a combatant) .

Had you said "I was at the Battle of Marathon, Rorke's Drift or Boston Tea Party" we'd all know t was a bit of Lulu nonsense?

To the men who served (on all sides) and their injured and fallen comrades you do yourself no favours.

I am sure your a good lad and meant no offence. If you really are shagging your way through Cebu , African 'Affairs" Department of C Mao University aged 72 I take my Panama Hat orf to yer...............

[DrWilly]

If you really are shagging your way through Cebu , African Dept of C Mao University aged 72 I take my Panama Hat orf to you...............

Yeah, he's not.

[Bob Mason]

One needs to be a very rich person to enjoy Prague. Probably the most expensive food in Europe although the beer is very good.

[mudcat]

1967 Naples, Italy courtesy of the US Navy. Took a bus up to the NATO base and to the long walk down to the port. The smells and sounds were nothing like my home town and the poverty was not explainable with my then world view.