Cypriot children’s 1974 journey into the unknown
Nicosia, Cyprus – Nine-year-old Mihalis Mihail had never seen a ship before, let alone been on board one. Yet there he stood, anxious and confused on the deck of The Patra, about to embark on a journey that would change his life forever.
The port of Limassol in southern Cyprus stirred with unusual commotion that hot September day in 1974.
It was a disorderly scramble as scores of children, some as young as six, buzzed around their solemn, gloomy-eyed parents in the shadow of the large passenger ferry tied to the dock.
As the gangway...
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