A curious picture...

[Filonian]

Sorry to have confused you Peter, probably just thinking abut Tusker put me nut in a whirl. As I recall, it had the same effect when I drank it , in fact I sometimes had to leave a session whilst I could still remember which end of the car to get in.

It was the same brew Peter, they just had to re-name it - I think someone in Kenya spat their dummy out and invoked copyright after one of the many tiffs.

Graham

[sketchy74]

Peter,

Absolutey superb photos, oh for a time machine and my Canon 40d in hand, looking forward to future gems, many thanks for sharing.

Best,

Fraser.

[Tomliner]

Lovely pics Peter.It reminds me that sometime soon,I'm going to have to start sorting through THOUSANDS of slides with a view to either binning or scanning and storing them.Heaven only knows how many of them are aircraft/aviation piccies.Best Wishes Eric.

[DispatchDragon]

Thank you Peter

White Castle!!!! :roll: A Resturant chain found in the US famous for making small square hamburgers known as
"Sliders" or "Gut Grenades" Castle lager - had a bit of a kick to it/

Nice Viscount - Lord that was a long time ago IAS had a major contract and association with RCM so Lusaka and
N'dola were our regular dropping off points - bit after you Peter fifteen years or so '

Leif

[petermcleland]

Nice Viscount - Lord that was a long time ago IAS had a major contract and association with RCM so Lusaka and
N'dola were our regular dropping off points - bit after you Peter fifteen years or so '

Leif...Can't remember when I took that picture but from my Logbook it has to be July 3rd 1959 as that is the only time I was at Lusaka with that Braun Paxette camera...I was flying Venom FB4 WR528 at the time. I guess that was my last visit to Lusaka...My very first visit there was in 1953 and at that time all the white people seemed to be living in caravans, there was only one street with duqas and huts and they were just finishing the building of the first hotel. Can't now remember the name of the hotel but of course it looked massive then and stood out as there were no buildings around it (possibly called The Ridgeway)...By the time I next saw it, I had to search because it seemed to have shrunk into obscurity, surrounded by higher buildings :flying:

On my screen I can see that Viscount has Central African Airways on its side.

[DispatchDragon]

The Ridgeway is or was (in the late 70s) still there , funny it didnt look that big

Lord I wish I had your memory for detail, I was lucky to remember the lager had the word Castle in it.
and some of the places we visited in those days are total blurs, My log book says I visited Blantyre three or
four times and night stopped there , but Im damned if I can recall anything

Leif

[Filonian]

Carlsberg etc. tends to have that effect Leif. I shouls know, downed several gallons in the Limbe Country Club just up the road from Blantyre.

[RJP]

Right...I misunderstood all that till I finally realised that they had NOT changed Dar-es-Salaam to Ndovu, but had changed the name of the beer :o

I'm glad it wasn't just me!

Castle lager - had a bit of a kick to it/

Wimp!

You must've had the infamous Chairmans ESB in Uganda? Mucho better than Castle.

I had no idea what ESB stood for until I tried to walk away from the bar on my first night in Entebbe

Rgds
Richard

[DispatchDragon]

LOL Richard

Sorry my first outing with Castle involved a wedding somewhere southwest of Ndola ALOT of Castle and a hilarious
piece of dialogue between two very Sh*tfaced Loadmasters

Scene sitting on beer crates outside of a village hall type building with corrugated iron roof
two slightly disheveled young men

LM1 - Do you know where we are?
Lm2 - Zambia?
LM1 - NO...where we really are?
LM2 - close to Ndola?
Lm1 - NO! exactly where we are?
LM2 - (thinking very hard) No, No Idea
LM1 - how many people do you think there are at this party?
LM2 - dunno, lots, 300 maybe?
LM1 - No...........how many Europeans? (Edited so not to offend)
Lm2 - I dunno 2 maybe?
Lm1 - you scared?
Lm2 - No - wonder if they are
They get up and go back and drink more

Well that's the way i remember it
suffice to say we both woke up in the bunks in the back of VP , wallets , watches and jewels all intact
it was a hell of a night

Leif