The Midway House, Karachi, sounds as if was the former BOAC Rest House.

The rumour always was that the man treating corns kept a grain of rice in his mouth and this is what he spat out as evidence that the corn was cured!!:E

No - the BOAC rest house was across and up the road from the KLM place. Never had any probs at the BOAC house - but it was different from the hotels in North America I stayed at,but it was a bit of a culture shock!

My father use to stay at the KLM place in the early '60's and I don't recall him complaining about the place.

UTA used to keep a Twin Otter in Lagos to fly overnighting crews across the border, to Lome or Cotonou, I can't recall which.

Happy days at the Midway in the mid 70s with BMA. We originaly stayed at the Intercon along with the Caledonian crews. Lovely ladies. But the Midway was much more interesting in more ways than one !!!!!!!:E

Juud....."At the pool there was a small wizened chap who specialised in the removal of corns from flight attendants' feet. He had a little toolkit wrapped in a greyish piece of cloth which he would ceremoniously unwrap next to the sun lounger. It contained a knife and a plastic straw. The knife to make an incision around the corn, and the plastic straw to suck it out "

Sounds to me like some old perv with a foot fetish :E