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THE: LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
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Foursome Holiday In Greek isies On
Greek Cruise Ship, "Buzzed" By
Turkish Plane When South Of Cyprus
By Don Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Don Thompson of
Lucknow and Mr. and Mrs. Angus
MacLennan of Goderich, former-
ly of Lucknow, spent their vaca-
tions together on a cruise ship
in the Greek isles and also visited
other parts of Europe..
Angus and Nancy travelled by,
air from Toronto to Frankfurt ,
Germany later travelling to Baden
where they visited with. relatives
'stationed with the Canadian Arm-
ed Forces there. They also visit-
ed in Switzerland with a friend
Nancy had met at a Girl Guide.
World Camp in Canada a number
of years ago. She is a resident of
Switzerland.
Don and Bev travelled by air
from Torontoto ,Zurich, Switzer-
land a few days later and met the
MacLennans there.
The foursome spent a day in
Zurich and then travelled by train
from, Zurich to Venice in Italy
where they spent a day.
It was in Venice where they
boarded the Greek cruise ship
which was to be their horse for the
next twelve days.
The ship had a passenger list
of about 550 with only about 50
to 75 English speaking travellers,
on board. The only other Canad-
ian on board was John Samuel of
Windsor , , a school teacher who
makes cruising a habit and hobby
having been; on board about
20 ships on similar cruises.
The ship's crew was Greek and
most of them English speaking,
but the remaining passengers spoke
various languages, the most prom-
inent being Italian, Gerinan and
French. Twenty countries of the
world were listed as home for the
passengers.
Life on ship was a continual
round of activity, food, entertain-
ment, dancing, food, recreation,
sunbathing , swimming and 'more
food. A salt water swimming '
pool rounded out a complete
holiday right on the ship, but
about every second day or more ,
the ship docked at various ports •
and allowed shore tours and a
quick look at the island or country
visited.
The first port of call was the
Island of Corfu after the ship had
sailed through the Adriatic Sea.
The Island of Crete was the sec-
ond port of call with sailing
through the Ionion Sea and into
the Mediterranean Sea.
The ship docked at Llaifa in the
state of Israel and gave the trav-
ellers the memorable experience
of visiting the city of Tel Aviv ,
Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
The original cruise was to have
included a visit to Cyprus but with
the troubled war situation there ,
this cancelled before the
cruise commenced.
A visit to the Greek island of
Rhodes, which sits precariously .
close t� the Turkish mainland,
was also cancelled at the last
minute as the ship neared the
island. This too, was because of
the explosive situation which ex-
isted in that part of the world.
A sobering experience for the
ship's passengers and crew was the
"buzzing" of the ship by a Turk-
ish reconnaisance plane. The
plane made four low level
"swoops" over the Greek cruise
ship which, by this time, was no
longer flying its flag and had been
running with the light's out on the
sides of the ship the night before.
The incident occurred south of
Cyprus and Rhodes in the Mediter-
ranean Sea.
' When the. Turkish plane appear-
ed satisfied that we were a pleas-
ure craft, he flew off into the
horizon and fortunately did not
return again.
Unable to dock in Rhodes, the
ship landed at Mykonos, a Greek
island midway between Greece
and Turkey with no harbour fac-
ilities that would allow a ship of
this size to dock. The passengers
were ferried to shore in the ship's
lifeboats and other craft which
carne out to meet the boat. A
side trip that day took the ship's
passengers to the uninhabited is-
land of Delos, a half hour ride
by motor boat. The island con-
tains the ruins of an ancient city, I
once the jumping, off spot to the
orient and at one time in ancient
history having a population of
many thousands of people. The
island is being restored as a histor-
ical location and the only access
is by boat. About 50 to 60 people
packed into each small boat and
the skilled mariners from Mykonos
ferried the tourists out into the
Agean Sea in what proved to be
one of the most terrifying trips
imaginable for many passengers.
Winds whipped up • waves 12 to 15
feet- and the small craft rot=
led and tossed their way to.the
island. Unable to land at the
normal docking location because
of the storm , the small boats
docked at an alternate more shel-
tered site and the tourists had to
walk at least a mile to the point
where the tour commenced.
Many hoped that the winds would
go down for the return trip
but, if anything they were worse.
The return trip was one to be re-
membered. The skill by which
these small boats were handled
has to be admired, but there were
few thoughts among the passengers
except that of terror and in many
cases anger that they had not been
warned' of the type of trip to ex-
pect. And, of course , some were
seasick with nowhere to go with
their problem. Anyone who got
off their bench on the ship and was
careless for a moment was very
likely to be swept overboard in an
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Safety precautions, as we know
them in this country, were not
visible. If there were life jackets
on board , and I believe there
were some in the hold of the boat ,
they were_.unaccessible to most of
the passengers. A trip to rememb-
er , and certainly one to be thank-
ful return from. For the
Mykonos Greek mariners, it was
probably a rough day, but for
those who live with the sea,_ prob-
ably nothing to be too upset about.
Next stop on the cruise was to
the city of. Athens in Greece
which , according to local
officials, is suffering heavily from
a drop in the tourist business there
this year: The highlight of Ath-
ens is the Acropolis with its hist-
ory and legend. We stood in the
city square and listened to a group
of Greek students demonstrating
for the Greek -Cypriot cause and
against° the United States. We
walked in front of the Parliament
buildings where "Kissinger -Murder-
er" signs were prominently dis-
played indicating thefeeling of
anti Americanism which exists
in Greece since the Cyprus prob-
lem reared its head,. We made
very sure to wear our Canadian
flag pins that day not wanting -to
be identified as an American in
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lucknow Man
Passes; Was 73
GORDON DARBY
Gordon Clifford Darby of Luck -
now died at his home at 3 a.m.
on Friday , August 16th from a
severe stroke which he had suffer-
ed earlier in the year. He was 73,
Mr. Darby wasliving retired.
He was born August 13 , 1901 in
Toronto, a son of Walter Darby
and Edith James.
He was married in Toronto to.
Louisa Baker, formerly of England.
Besides his wife . he is survived
by two daughters Mrs. Lillian
Gorham of Etobicoke and Mrs.
Molly Passmore of ,Lucknow , one
son Fred of Georgetown, ten
grandchildren and one great grand•
child.
He was predeceased by his par-
ents and three brothers.
Mr. Darby was a member of the
Canadian. Legion and a member
of the Town and Country Club.,
A Legion service was held at
MacKenzie Funeral Home on
August 17th at 9 p.m.
Cremation took place in Lond-
on on Monday, August 19th."
SOUTH KINIOS
Mr. and Mrs. VernonElli
Joanne , Mrs , ,Jack Wilson,
and Susan all of Hamilton!
dinner guests with .Mr, and
Fraser MacKinnon on Sunday
Mary MacKinnon returned
after working for the summa
Zellers in Guelph.
Miss Margaret Loney of if
Falls visited with Mr. and
Gilbert, Hamilton last week
We welcome Mr, and Mts,
Moffat to the 4th concession
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