1) In 1961 we were coming home from the Philippines after our 3 year stay there, we took the scenic route - by ship. I think the ship was the SS Frankfurt, but I could be wrong. We went through the Suez Canal, I remember a guy on a camel chasing alongside the ship. Eventually we neared Italy, where we were going to leave the ship. Somewhere along the way, we passed the volcanic island of Stromboli, which looked like this...
As we sailed closer, there was actually a ribbon of lava straming down the side of it. Needless to say, the ship changed course and sailed a wide way round Stromboli!
2)When we were in the Philippines, we used to drive up to the mountains outside of Manila. We used to go to Tagaytay, where Mobil Oil had a house that execs and their families could stay. Not far away was the Taal volcano, which had a cone inside a lake which was actually a the cone of a larger volcano. Very pretty, as you can see...
Turns out,quite a few years ago, possibly mid 1970s, the volcano actually erupted for the first time in a long time. Glad we weren't there for that...
That would have been a pain in the ash!!
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