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The main difficulty with this trip is that we lose an hour every night and added to that it doesn't get dark till 10.30. So if you go to bed say at twilight at 11 P.M., it is really 12 p.m. (losing the hour) and you have to get up by 7 the [[strikethrough]] night [[/strikethrough]] next morning for breakfast, 1st sitting. The result is none of us really get to sleep till 1 AM and more likely 2-3- and we have not more than 4-5 hours sleep any night. 
  
Other than that we have had a most wonderful trip. Today is the first dark day, altho other days have started off foggy, but today the fog hangs low and the waves are worse and we are in the notorious English Channel.  But it isn't gong to make either Doris or me sick.
  
I have to go pack up my duds now and check off all the things to see I haven't left any behind.
  
Will write again when we reach Paris.

Doris.


UNITED STATES LINES
S.S.  27 June 1950
Near Le Havre.

Dear Ma:
  
We made our first stop this forenoon to let off all the Irishmen at Cobb (Queenstown). We came in sight of land about the time we were getting up at 6:30 - 7. and the mists lifted enough so as for us to see the green hills rolling down to the water, - beautifully green in the early light. Then we came into the long harbor of Cobb with the town at the end, and the cathedral rising above the houses; and on either side the green rounded hills, with farm-houses and cultivated green fields. A couple of small boats (tenders) came out to fasten up alongside of our big