1962 - 93

Cherie and Clive ..

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welcome you to their early holidays page [7]
- before 1994

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1972 Tunisia - Carthage, Dougga and Therbus Major

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1973 Italy - Pisa and 1981 Switzerland - Clive on The Jungenfrau

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1966 Venice - gondolas and Rialto bridge

OUR EARLY TRAVELS:

Clive's first 'trip' abroad was in 1953 when, as part of his National Service in the RAF, he was posted for twenty-one months to Kasfareet, alongside the Suez Canal in Egypt. From there, in 1954, he spent two weeks in Famagusta, Cyprus at a 'leave camp', visiting the Roman ruins at Salamis and the mountain top castle of St Hilarion.

In 1962 he was a member of the dance and song group from Chichester that represented England at the International Folk Festival in the 'Sound of Music' town of Salzburg, Austria and later that year went with the group to another festival, in Schoten, Belgium. This was followed by appearances at two further festivals in Belgium during 1964 at Antwerp and Yvoir.

During 1966 he drove across Europe visiting Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Italy, Venice, Yugoslavia, and Austria then toured again in 1971 via Belgium, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to Greece - visiting Troy, Pergamon and Ephesus.

Late in 1972 he flew to Tunisia where he explored the ancient site of Carthage and the Roman ruins of Dougga and Thuburbo Majus but in 1973 was back driving across Europe, this time to Italy, where he visited Pisa, Rome and Pompeii. The following year, 1974, he was at Bad Harzburg in Germany as song tutor at a folk course and during 1976 and 77 made several visits to the historical university towns of Heidelberg and Tubingen, including singing at the Tubingen 1977 folk festival.

In 1978 he was still holidaying in Southern Germany, in Stuttgart, but in 1979 sailed across to Oslo in Norway to visit his friend the folk singer and fiddle player Duncan Wood. Later that year and again in 1980 he was singing at folk clubs in Aahus and Copenhagen, Denmark. 1981 saw him touring and singing with two friends at folk clubs in Heidelberg and he also went on holiday to Interlaken in Switzerland where he took a trip 11,330 feet up The Jungenfrau. In 1986 was with a folk group from Heathfield in Sussex on an exchange visit to perform in Tauberbischofsheim in Germany.

Whilst Clive's holidays involved either sightseeing or singing Cherie's were more relaxing. She was, and still is, interested in trying local foods, meeting the inhabitants and taking things easy in the sun. Her first trip abroad was in 1972 when she went to Greece followed in 1974 by a visit to Sicily. Staying in the Mediterranean her next holiday was to Malta in 1978 and Italy the following year [1979]. After that she visited Corfu in 1981 and Crete in 1982 Then for three years, 1983, 84 and 85, she visited Morocco followed in 1986 with a trip to Cyprus and then a return to Morocco in 1987 After moving to Brighton she visited Turkey in the summer on 1988

Following on after these individual holidays came a series of trips where Cherie and Clive visited Cherie's daughter Tracie, then living in Germany. In 1989, 90 and 91 they were in West Berlin. The first visit included a trip, via Checkpoint Charlie, to East Berlin, the second coincided with the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and by the third visit the 'Wall' had gone and they were able to stroll through a re-united city. The next three Christmases were spent in Germany - in 1992 in Osnabruck and both 1993 and 94 in Guttersloh.