Originally Posted by
Justapax1
I wasn't aware that the VC10 had so much range. When I flew in it, it went LHR-BEY-KHI-DEL, I did know it could do transatlantic, but my parents were never posted to diplomatic missions on the other side of the Atlantic so I never got to try it.
My parents loved Beirut, in those days (very early 70s) it really was the Paris of the Orient, so we always used to stop off for a day or two there on our way back to England. I still have fond memories of the Club St Georges, of which my parents were members, where the fishermen on the rocks below the Club would bring their catch directly to the kitchens, I've never had fresher fish.
Are your hearing aids only for hearing loss or for tinnitus as well? I had hearing aids from my local Specsavers, these cost the NHS a lot of money and really weren't much use at all. I got an appointment with an audiologist in Lincoln Hospital (the waiting list was 99 weeks) who gave me hearing aids specifically for tinnitus sufferers, after a four-hour hearing and balance test, and these are vastly better. It's worthwhile putting yourself on the waiting list for an NHS audiologist, they do much better hearing aids, at a price that makes the taxpayer weep.
Justapax1, I also have wonderful memories of Club St. Georges. My parents had access through reciprocal rights with The Tehran Club.
Club St. Georges. This would be about 1967:
Fisherman behind the club:
The bar:
and the Manager, with ships' plaques on the walls:
and you'll doubtless remember the Hotel St. Georges just along the promenade:
It was a wonderful city (and country). Sorry for the thread drift.