tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post1403766682811280776..comments2023-10-30T07:10:34.610-07:00Comments on Underbelly: Roman HolidayBucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-5358626864589397512011-11-03T04:50:38.800-07:002011-11-03T04:50:38.800-07:00i was in italy once -- 1946 or maybe '47. i wa...i was in italy once -- 1946 or maybe '47. i was able seaman on a Liberty ship that went to argentina to load corn for genoa. really long trip from east coast USA all the way across equator down the coast of south america up the rio plata to rosario and back down the river to buenos Aires to finish loading. everything was cheap - bifsteak con papas fritas con un vaso de cerveza, nice whores working out of cabs or should say in cabs and off a bed in the back of cheap bard charged 6 pesos -- buck and a half. biggest rats you ever saw -- corn fed -- went on the ship with the corn. they were all over the ship all the way to genoa. unfortunately, they didn't all get off the ship in genoa with the corn and were a serious nuisance all the way from genoa to brooklyn. i got off the ship there, put my payday in the bank for college tuition, and cauight another ship -- better ship -- a C-3 -- that carried cargo to northern europe, starting in hamburg and then ports all the way down to le harve. Genoa was pretty good, but it was no Rosario.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com