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Old 30th Mar 2016, 07:28
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PAXboy
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Thread drift. (but it's my thread!)
Thanks WHBM. I remember my great aunt telling of how wonderfully fast the new Imperial Flying Boat service was (drawing on a brain that was 12 years old when she told me:
  1. Taxi to London Waterloo
  2. Boat train to Southampton
  3. Lighter to the Flying Boat
  4. Paris (not sure which span of water)
  5. Northern Italian Lakes (I think)
  6. The Nile
  7. Lake Victoria
  8. The Vaal River
  9. Cape Town / Table Bay
  10. Taxied to a jetty.
  11. Her driver would meet her(!)
Night stops were everyone off and into a hotel. Dinner was formal with everyone 'dressed for dinner' and the Captain at the head of the table.
Only took about four days (I think). I sit to be corrected.
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