The ship with 900 brides

 Peter Photakis remembers his trip to Australia

Peter Photakis remembers his trip to Australia Source: SBS

Peter Photakis arrived in Australia with his mother and his two brothers with over 900 Greek brides in 1957 on a old ship galled Begona. It took about a month to arrive in Australia and it was not a very pleasant trip Mr Photakis tells Sotiris Hatzimanolis.



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