Post-War

Abstract

On VE Day AB and HB were in Aden, and spent the rest of the year 1945 between Aden and Ethiopia. That winter HB fell ill; and AB, perhaps remembering the state of France as he had last seen it, decided to take her for a cure to the Lebanon, where they spent the summer of 1946. The cure was successful; and in the spring of 1947 it was decided to go all the way to France in El Hak. They disembarked at St Raphael. The port had been badly damaged during the war and repairs had hardly been started. But local good will made up for the lack of port facilities. AB, with memories of the Europe of 1944, had brought with him a number of crates of foodstuffs; thanks to his largesse the unloading and the twenty-five mile journey on to Le Paradou were in the nature of a triumphal progress.