The priest, incidentally, is still around - he's in Canada these days and is a very important senior priest, now semi-retired.
Gosh l remember a priest l encountered at check in for a party cruise , something clicked between us,a really nice guy and a great sense of humour, he was only on as a short term replacement and had one of the signal deck suites, he was moving cabins after the cruise, We did some God talk , l had always wanted to know about the confessional (not that im of the faith ) but he was delighted to answer my questions. Then had drinks in the yacht club and after the midnight buffet for a lark l tried on his dog collar, he told me once he was away and lost it and had to use an empty white bit of plastic cut from a fairy liquid bottle. Sadly he was exposed in the sun for perhaps giving too much attention to the lady members of his flock.
Another two Priests l became good friends with on a med cruise, went ashore in Alexandria, iv recounted this story on here before, but to cut a long story we got hijacked in a Taxi and the driver demanded extra money. We did eventually get out and his lasting words to me were "For **** sake run Myles" We could and did laugh about it later and he always said my face was a picture when he swore. Well it was the very last thing l was expecting to hear.
