The maire of Barcares would like to see some of her cabins restored for holiday accommodation, as it was originally intended.
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Monday, 14 August 2017
Wrecked in Barcares
The beach at Barcares, near Perpignan, attracts many visitors, but when the steamer "Lydia" stranded on the beach 50 years ago few knew that she too would become a landmark visitor attraction. One of the world's oldest liners in the last half century the ship has been re-furbished and used as a discotheque and casino, and now part of the accommodation has been dedicated to a museum retracing the glories of her cruising days.
The maire of Barcares would like to see some of her cabins restored for holiday accommodation, as it was originally intended.
NB -interesting to note that although in English ships are one of the few inanimate objects to be assigned a gender (ships are feminine) in French she is masculine - despite her name - because paquebot is masculine.
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The maire of Barcares would like to see some of her cabins restored for holiday accommodation, as it was originally intended.
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