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Article: TRAVEL; OCEAN; odyssey.(Features)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- January 30, 1999
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He was obviously getting on a bit, but there was something especially impressive about the stranger at the captain's cocktail party on board the Royal Viking Sun.
His eyes had yet to lose their sparkle, his gait was youthfully upright, almost military, yet somehow relaxed. Here was a man who was at ease with life - and he looked somehow familiar.
``I'd like you to meet Mr Buzz Aldrin, Paul,'' said someone.
I proffered a sweaty handshake. To a generation of youngsters like me who spent the late sixties glued to TV coverage of the Apollo missions, ...