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We first met on a ten-day familiarisation trip to southern Germany and Berlin (in the heart of the then DDR, Democratic Republic of Deutschland). Alan Guignon was the ‘tour leader’ (representing the hosts, Lufthansa and the German Tourist Office), and it is Fred Oertli who has done the ‘research’ to locate Alan and me 45 years after.
We meet in Kings Cross and share moments from that trip and our far-flung careers.
Michael, Alan and Fred at Oktoberfest in Germany – on a Lufthansa Educational Trip for Travel Agents in September 1967
Michael departing Sydney on a Lufthansa Boeing 707 on my first trip to Europe – September 1967
Fred, Michael and Alan meet again in Kings Cross at El Alamein Fountain in 2012
Fred brings an old photo – remembering names of the others who travelled to Germany with us in 1967