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What's been your favorite port of visit for those fortunate enough to go overseas?
I've been on two West Pacs. Unfortunately for both tours several cities were cancelled at the last minute so we didn't visit as many places as we could have.
But if I had to pick my most favorite place I visited, it would have to be Singapore. I thought it to be a clean city with a lot of cool things to do like visit the zoo, go shopping in stores, play sports. I wouldn't mind going back again one day.
Singapore was nice but definitely nowhere near my favorite.
Favorite was probably Mombasa Kenya as I loved the people, the wildlife and the safari I took for three days...most fun was probably Pattaya Beach Thailand with Subic Bay a close second.
Loved Australia, China, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan also. Can't say there was one I didn't enjoy.
I served on a tender for 3 years, during that period of time we made one liberty port which was Brest France. It was okay.
I served on three subs, for a total of 17 deterrent patrols. In all of those patrols we saw four liberty ports in total. Lisbon Portugal, St. Thomas Charlotte Amalie, Saint Marys Georgia, and San Diego Ca.
In my 20 year career, I have seen five liberty ports. I think St. Thomas Charlotte Amalie was the best.
I did three months in the Mediterranean once, we did loops around hundreds of the tiny islands and tracked alongside all of the coasts. We stuck a periscope up out of the water maybe a half-dozen times, so the Captian could look at the moon. But otherwise we stayed submerged the whole time.
Served on two ships, USS Iwo Jima LPH-2 & USS LaSalle AGF-3 when it became the 6th fleet flag ship out of Gaeta Italy. Loved Rhodes Greece. I enjoyed many of the ports but Rhodes is always my favorite. Others I enjoyed included Barcelona Spain, Venice Italy, Valletta Malta, Athens Greece, Varna Bulgaria, and Haifa Israel. Of course I enjoyed the home port of Gaeta Italy.
Ports I absolutely hated and refused to ever go back to include Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey, and France.
But if I had to pick my most favorite place I visited, it would have to be Singapore. I thought it to be a clean city with a lot of cool things to do like visit the zoo, go shopping in stores, play sports. I wouldn't mind going back again one day.
I do have to mention that the "cool things" you mention are things I would never do when visiting another country as I can do all that at home. I want to be out and in the culture and experiencing things I can't see/do at home.
Very surprised Singapore would be someones favorite for places visited during a West Pac. It is a nice, clean, city but it was very urban with not a lot of unique things to do. I'm glad I went there several times and got to drink a Singapore Sling at the Long Bar in the Raffles Hotel but it would not be anywhere near the top of my list if I was picking places I wanted to visit again.
One thing that did stand out in Singapore is that I had never seen so many beautiful Asian women in any of the other places I visited.
Favorite? Something in the Caribbean or the Bahamas PROVIDED we got there by not being at GITMO.
Otherwise, well, La Maddalena is great the first or second time you are there but if you are there for a month or two, it becomes a little more exciting than Agusta Bay.
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