Ismailia Message Board<br><br>I am British, was born to an RAF air max pas cher father in tiffany outlet milano Canada in 1942 and we moved to Iamailia in 1945 when I was three and stayed till I have a few vivid memories and woud like to know what exists today on the site of the RAF camp of those days. I remember it was I think, on the bank of the Sweet Water Canal, with an Arab village on the opposite shore ,,,,,,I remember visits to the Blue Lagoon for families jordan pas cher to have beach trips and for my father to go sailing and a very rare visit (for me) to Ismailia itself and I attended for a short while the Army school at Moasca. Is there anyone else of my vintage around moncler outlet serravalle from those days who might know more?<br><br>I British too, born in UK in 1943, but my father, an RAF officer, was posted to Egypt (twice) and between mid 1947 and 31st outlet hogan italia December 1952 we lived there most of the time, largely in two flats in Ismailia town. For a time I attended the "Ecole des Freres", a French convent school run by monks, but after the Egyptian officers coup in (?) 1951 (we were shot at by the locals, and I recall my father using his revolver to dissuade them by shooting back from our flat) we had to move to camp Fanara on karen millen uk dresses the Great Bitter Lake. I briefly attended the army school, which I hated totally different from the French school. [Once, I recall our being made to stand for ages in the blazing sun ghd hair straightener for what I suppose was roll call: I begged to be allowed to sit or go the shade, then remember only puking before waking up having passed out]. The RAF school at camp Fanara was better.<br><br>One of our flats in Ismailia was in a block with a Travel agency on the ground floor, and the (flat) roof overlooked an open giuseppe zanotti soldes air cinema (I recall watching films from there), but among my main recollections of the town are of what we called the "French beach", where I learned to swim indeed, we several times swam across the canal, air max tn pas cher carefully avoiding the undertow from the huge ships, then hopping about on the broiling sand on the opposite side (on our side there was matting down to the water). I recall fishing there, catching and eating what we called "chicken fish" which had ferocious poionous spikes on their gills, and "German bream", smaller fish without scales, just a tough skin woolrich online store italia they too had one nasty spike on the dorsal fin.<br><br>Hi My name is Peter, I Egyptian and I live in Ismailia , to tell you the truth ismailia is now a very different city as it was, lisseur ghd pas cher We live in a 3 bed 2 bath home. the RAF camp veste parajumpers now known as " Mattar El Galaa" it an airport for the Egyptian air forces and also it a now considered outside the city of ismailia , on the borders i mean and you cannot go there as it a military place .<br><br>Also Mr. nicholaspsh . the place you were living in as i understand the description is doudoune pjs pas cher now one of the busiest streets in Ismailia , oolrich outlet bologna a pastry in the place of the travel agency called " Thebes" and the cinema is now closed .<br><br>The only NAMES of individuals I recall from Ismailia are "Gabi Bahari", a travel agent who I assumed was Egyptian (and I always assumed the travel agency you say called "Thebes" I don remember that name underneath our flat belonged to him) and an English couple surnamed "Lord".<br><br>Sorry the town has changed , but glad to hear the French Beach is still tops.<br><br>I often wondered how the "Arab Spring" affected places outside Cairo.<br><br>I was born in Alexandria but moved to Port said till 1953. went to British boy school until the revolution started also Attended French College St. Marie. then moved to Ismailia 1953 and worked for the British Troops in michael kors wallet outlet RAF El Firdan untill 1955. Lived in Ismailia town. All my friends were Italian or Maltese. one in particular his name was Armando Gamino. His sister was married to an Egyptian Officer in charge nike blazer soldes of Office issuing Visa to Europeans living in giubbotti moncler outlet Egypt.<br><br>I also remember the Blue Lagoon ( for the British service man from around Ismailia) my friends and I use to go swimming every day there also Next to it was the British Officers section followed by the one we use to call French area.<br><br>I remember very well the Open air cinema it was called Broadway it peuterey uomo outlet had next to it a close one too, opposite there was a shop of Fool and Felafel sandwich maker it, and another Cinema was called Open Air and it was right next to the railway that passed from Cairo to Port said. and a third one in what we use to call Arashiya. he worked at the Power Station pjs pas cher RAF SPINNEY WOOD nearby we lived in the civilian quarter which was nike tn close to the Sweet Water Canal. I remember a lorry would pick us up in the afternoons to go to the Blue Lagoon. The cinema was the Astra and was advertised with boards on the side of a Motorcycle my father Jack Buttery was a keen Photographer along with my elder brother Fred. We sailed out on the "Dunnoter Castle pjs pas cher This encapsulat in 1947 and came home in 1949 on the " Empress of Australia" from Port Said.<br><br>In the 1950 my father spent time at RAF KASFAREET and HABBANNIYAH in Iraq.<br><br>I lived with my parents and 2 brothers at RAF Fanara in 1947/48. We had moved peuterey outlet from Jerusalem just prior to the independence of Israel. My father was the OD (other denominations) chaplain. I have some great photos and cine film of our lives there which was happy and carefree. We swam nearly every day and had great fun messing about in rubber dinghies. There were several "mothballed" flying boats which we used to explore. I have vivid memories of watching cartoons at the open air cinema. I recall one bonfire night where instead of fireworks we had search and rescue flares and verey cartridges fired from guns !
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