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4of Babelmandeb in my ears. So when we glided through the straight of Babelmandeb I know we were in the Seas of Romance."Put me somewhere East of Suez,Where the best is like the worst;Where there aint no ten commandmentsAnd a man can raise a thirst".But it was all best with us. The worst was a little warm weather. The Chaplain daily reminded us that the decalogue still held good. The main thing with which to assuage the Red Sea heat & thirst was lime juice. (Though let me whisper it, on a couple of historic occasions we did splash out on Fizz.)But the Red Sea is (so far as we knew it) a much maligned waterway. it was warm in the South, temperate in the centre & cold at nights in the north. Near the Sinai Peninsular it was chilly except at midday. We saw the identical mountain where Moses did his historic interview & the children of Israel ran riot.
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