Can we name them ? The worst place visited ??

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'Ere, 'Ang on a minute, Nige. I thought this is a yachting forum. Did you really visit all those places in your bilge keeler?
My visit to Aden was ina 45 foot gaff schooner. Our 'orrible engine had broken down and we actually sailed into the RN part of Steamer Point to a round of applause as we dropped the main tops'l and scandalised the main to bring her to a halt and then let go the anchor.
"Not bad for sodgers" was the only comment. We had just come from The Seychelles.

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Re: Agreed

Yup - chicken in chocolate is one of the worst culinary ideas ever. I could barely speak cos of the air after 2 days. But...I have to say it was one of the most exciting places I've ever been. Love it, but couldn't stick it for more than a couple of days due to potential for asphyxiation..

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Re: Puerto Colon - Colon an Anatomical Term

I agree totally. The last time I sailed into the harbour in our Colvic Watson 35 I had a go with the windsurfer and had to keep dodging turds... Definetly correctly named. There are a lot of other harbours that actually welcome the yachtie.


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I thought Basra was prity rough. But a nice man did make me a new brass olive on a massive old lathe.

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Sorry !!

I'll leave my salty behind .......

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Bilge Keelers get up further ! I came - cos they said was FREE Guinness !
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Re: Bilge Keelers go so far up..

they can cross desserts and climb mountain ranges/forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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Re: Grand Camp Maisey

I'll second that. What a dump

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Re: Lezardrieux

Can't really agree with the previous post - I like the place.

Go into the newer part of the marina over the sill where there's no tidal effect at all. The best restaurant is up the hill, across the square, and left at the end. On the other side of the square, there's a good supermarket. A walk up the hill to get there, but worth it.

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Re: \"Marlboro Country\".....

The whole of Iran? Not quite... the ski resorts are apparently very pleasant indeed, and too cold for the enforcers - women can get away with wearing wooly hats for instance.

I'd like to put in a vote for the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel, although I actually rather liked it - each bedroom on the North Facade had feature walls, featuring a projectile hole made by every calibre of weapon you can think of, the switchboard is a GPO jackfield system with only 5 patchcords left, and that 70s retro appeal isn't retro at all - merely original! It is also horribly scarred by 6 years of fundamentalist rule.

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Re: \"Marlboro Country\".....

Agreed. Even Tehran is not bad. Allow me to delete "the whole of Iran", and insert "Kharg Island", and we have a contender!

At the other, positive, end of the scale, for those who like 60's and 70's retro chic, may I recommend the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City - the former CIA headquarters - quite delightful! Where else in East Asia can one get a perfect croissant or baguette for breakfast?

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Why has no one mentioned Campbeltown? Unfriendly fee collection, really poor pubs/restaurants, joy riding neds, toilets closed when you need them.

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Agree ith Mirelle.

Constanza was quite the worst when Ceausescu was the head man. Bleak, dreary, unsafe, smelly, expensive and not at all welcoming.

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Agree with Mirelle.

Constanza was quite the worst when Ceausescu was the head man. Bleak, dreary, unsafe, smelly, expensive and not at all welcoming.

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Underclassed by Ardrossan though .. the most depressing place in the western hemisphere!

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Re: Bituman and Lagos Slaughter House Berth

Ha - were you on the Shell job that chucked all its mooring ropes over the side on Christmas eve, then spent all Christmas day steaming round Lagos anchorage in amidist the Cement Boats asking for them back - gave us all a laugh.

Who can forget the Lagos Slaughterhouse berth, blocked sea suctions full off offal cast offs. Paid off there once, ye Gods.

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Mogueriec of the Brittany coast. To be honest, not a harbour, just a bay which was conveniently sheltered. After 4 hours coming from l'Aberw'rach, wind on the nose, 2 of the 3 crew were sick, and we decided to call it a day. Unfortunately closest port was still 20 odd miles a way. So of to the coast to anchor. Had to drag the tender for 400m up the rocks, and the town itself was shite. Only restaurant was the resto of the local camping. When we went for a drink, we were standing at the bar, a guy comes in with a double gauge shotgun folded over his arm and he tosses a dead rabit on the bar and orders a red wine while oggling my girlfriend. She just doesn't go for guys with one tooth. If it had been in the USA I would have expected the sound of dueling banjos. Oh, this was july 2000

This years winner? Nissida, SW of Napels. Deserted naval base turned marina, with wonderfull view of dillapidated steel mill and beach inhabited by homeless people living in cardboard boxes

Non-sailing? Sofia, Bulgaria. Except on sunday, then it turn into a more civil place.

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