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| SHIPS OF THE CROATIA, ITALY & GREECE TRIP: JULY 2005 All pictures © matt@hhvferry.com |
| Thursday July 21 17. Paros to Santorini on EXPRESS SANTORINI (CHARTRES, 1974) Friday July 22 18. Santorini to Paros on EXPRESS APOLLON (SENLAC, 1973) 19. Paros to Rafina (overnight) on AQUA JEWEL |
| Top: Ship Number 17. The Express Santorini (ex-Chartres) seen at Piraeus on July 25. |
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| Above: Comparison of the Express Apollon (ex-Senlac) (bottom) seen from the cliffs at Santorini on July 22 with a similar angle of sister Hengist in her original state in the mid-1970s. Click on the image for a larger version: Your browser may shrink the image to fit in the browser window - click on the icon in the bottom right hand corner to view at full-size) |
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| Above: Ship Number 19 - The Aqua Jewel, newly stretched for 2005, is seen leaving Andros from the Penelope A on July 23. |
| Click here for the pictures from Part Seven of the 2005 July trip |
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| Above: On board Express Santorini. |
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| Above: Inside, the Express Santorini has been extensively refurbished in a contemporary style since her English Channel days. This is the aft lounge, once the upper vehicle deck garage. |
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| Above: In the otherwise fully refurbished Distinguished Class lounge on the upper passenger deck this wooden relief showing Chartres Cathedral can still be found adjacent to the bar counter. |
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| Above & Below: As this four-berth cabin demonstrates, beneath the car deck things are rather more original, right down to the original blankets bearing the old SNCF monogram (below), still being used after 31 years! |
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| Above: After lengthening, the main lounge of the Aqua Jewel stretches on for what seems like an eternity - this is now a truly vast space and one wonders why something a little more imaginative wasn't attempted. |