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9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1984 - Page 0111

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Regiment 9th/12th Lancers
Year 1984
Transcription rRing ring ..... what you guys
doing tonight ..... groan . . . . .
nothing really. . . _ _ lets go Mexrcan'
SO off to another night Of Tortillas,
tequilla and lrieestos neiiros ltried
negroesl and inevitably Cobblestones.
And we came here for a holiday?
To record this holiday
chronologically would test even the
keenest reader, and also the honesty if
not the memory of the author. So let
us just look at some of the impressions
and episodes, not all mind you, just
some.
Now we have touched on the
glamorous exterior of particularly
PBPCC, but wherever one turned in
the fastest {or was it the second
fastest} growing State in the United
States one saw evidence of wealth
and progress. Wealth and progress for
those who wanted it and worked for it.
It will be clear that we were moving in
a rarefied atmosphere, totally spoilt by
all that went on around us and was
offered to us. But for all that, there
was this feeling of being in a land of
opportunity, a land where if you
wanted to do something, well, all you
had to do was go and do it, where
fortunes could be made, or of course,
lost. There was a very open approach
to life and to people. It was natural for
complete strangers to introduce
tl'remselves, be friendly and express
regret at our departure. In short we
were made to feel completely
welcome, to their houses, to the Club
and to America.
West Patm Beach is something else
again, with Ocean Boulevard lined
with the Atlantic Ocean on one side. a
row of mansions owned by the likes of
Yoko Ono on the other. These were
on a narrow strip of land separated
from the mainland by an inland sea.
We recommend Chuck and Harold‘s
both for the Sense of humour of it's
staff, its cocktails and for its food. We
can also warn you now that the Post
Office is not 50 yards from Breakers
l—totel.
Dr Carrol and Gamma Bernard, our
hosts, for one evening in their lovely
house. not only gave us a party, but
gave us each a picture, and then gave
the “young ones‘ an airbourne tour of
the area in their own aircraft.
Fortunately they were not airsick as
they had been seasick the day before
when we lried our hand at sailfishing
THE QTI lr'lZTH ROYAL LANCERS REGIMENTM .JDUHNAI
Some posed for the cameras more than others.
Lt Scott. Deiie, Lt Boughey, Pat, Ed and Glen Hart Manager of Gullstream Polo Ctuol,
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