MisterC

I sailed on the Flavia in 73 to the Bahamas. As I recall the waiters were good time Italians, definatly loved to flirt with the ladies. I too have a signed Flavia band LP and I still have a record player. But really the music is not that good.

As a boy I think I was really lucky, my dad was in the Foreign Service and the only way we traveled was by ship!! :) We sailed to Spain on the SS Independence in 57, then back to the states on the same ship in 60, back to Spain on the SS Constitution. Best that I can recall I had a blast. My folks would always take me to the bingo and horse race games and Neptune must have liked me because I would always win (Drove my brother nuts)!:D

When we left Spain for the last time in 63 and we were on an Italian liner called the Vulcania. It was a really old ship built in the 20s. Mussolini used it as a troop ship for a while during WWII. Later the US seized it and used it as well. But is was a really majestic ship and the food is something I still dream about. We crossed the Atlantic in January hit some enormous storms, saw a large herd of whales and saw three submarines. For a 12 year old kid that was neat.:cool:

Ahh the memories!!!!