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& was given leave to Alex the same night & the next day. It is a beautiful place & much after the style of Paris. Lovely squares & gardens & the people dine out in the street. There is also Cabarets where the girls dance round you while you have a drink or something else. We were marched down to the Boat next morning & it was no other than the Australian Coaster "Indarra". We boarded it on Friday morning 25th May & stopped on board in midstream until Sunday afternoon at 3 pm. At that hour 6 transports - the Indarra leading the Caledonia, Leicester Castle, Malwa, Kaiser-l-Hind & Canberra, all steamed out in line with 14 destroyers & a couple of battle Cruisers ahead of us. There were 2 destroyers to each boat & they kept the same places all the way over. We were bound for Marseilles (France) & it was 7 days trip across the Mediterranean. We steered on Zig Zag course all day & by night there was not a light to be struck on the