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In reply to the discussion: Post your favorite Captain [View all]DFW
(54,414 posts)107. I always wanted to make it back to the Basque Country
It's less than a 3 hour flight from me, and somehow I never have the time. They're a very special people. More like the ones Nicholai Hel hung around with ("Shibumi" and a lot less like the ETA gang you always heard about in the papers. Nicholai Hel was a figment of Rodney Whitaker's ("Trevanian's" imagination, but Whitaker had spent some time in Euzkadi, and knew whereof he wrote.
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I actually got to meet this Captain during Contraband Days at Lake Charles, LA.
Arkansas Granny
Apr 2015
#86
Ioan Gruffudd as Horatio Hornblower (though your is a rather close second)
LanternWaste
Apr 2015
#99