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I remember the faff of having three different lots of currency just to get to Holland.
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My friend had a similar experience but not with wine but a can of shaving foam which exploded at the airport in his case. hilarious but messy.My first was as a 7 year old with parents and Dad drove us in his MG Magnette to Riccione in Italy for a summer holiday. You got your route from the AA like rally pace notes and I used to read out the instructions for him. Stopping for picnic lunch with a baguette, ham butter & mustard and a little primus to make tea.
Coming home, the red wine he bought exploded in his suitcase staining all his clothes when coming back over the Alps.
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4 up in a Renault Dauphine to Sitges and back, lost the windscreen in France on the return, was a bloody nightmare.Do you remember the 'good ol' days' of traveling abroad, using Travellers Cheques, a phone box to call home using a phone card.. no internet .
You left Blighty and were out of touch for weeks .. wandering and getting lost, no sat nav, just Michelin maps to navigate, life was so much simpler.. and the roads do much quieter..
I recall being short of cash and couldn't cash a traveler's cheque over a four day French bank holiday weekend, four days with no cash .. and shops wouldn't accept or cash a cheque
My very first trip was in 1972.. MG Midget with a two man tent, with my GF, and future wife, we drove to St Tropez and came back via Switzerland. they say the your first road trip abroad s the best.. can't argue with that..
What do you remember about your early days of travelling abroad .. when was your first trip and where did you go ?
4 up in a Renault Dauphine to Sitges and back, lost the windscreen in France on the return, was a bloody nightmare.
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Must have been a bit cramped in a Midget with your GF AND future wife.Do you remember the 'good ol' days' of traveling abroad, using Travellers Cheques, a phone box to call home using a phone card.. no internet .
You left Blighty and were out of touch for weeks .. wandering and getting lost, no sat nav, just Michelin maps to navigate, life was so much simpler.. and the roads do much quieter..
I recall being short of cash and couldn't cash a traveler's cheque over a four day French bank holiday weekend, four days with no cash .. and shops wouldn't accept or cash a cheque
My very first trip was in 1972.. MG Midget with a two man tent, with my GF, and future wife, we drove to St Tropez and came back via Switzerland. they say the your first road trip abroad s the best.. can't argue with that..
What do you remember about your early days of travelling abroad .. when was your first trip and where did you go ?
Drove to southern Spain in my Maxi with a pal towing my ski boat, the rear of the Maxi folded down into a massive double bed which was just as well as my pal was ex Mr Universe and a massive chap. Ended up staying in Lloret del Mar water skiing every day, not allowed say what we did in the eveningsMyself and my now wife and her her brother in our late teens went touring france for a week in an Austin Maxi, we had a cooking stove but no tent we slept in the car, still look back with fond memories.
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Drove to southern Spain in my Maxi with a pal towing my ski boat, the rear of the Maxi folded down into a massive double bed which was just as well as my pal was ex Mr Universe and a massive chap. Ended up staying in Lloret del Mar water skiing every day, not allowed say what we did in the evenings
Went to a rock festival in Germany in 1986, I remember where we stayed a lot of bars had cigarette machines outside attached to the walls, 3 x DM coins would dispense a pack of 20, one of our gang discovered you could use a 10p (2s) coin instead of a DM, so 30p instead of almost a pound for 20 cigs !The old 2 shilling coin was the same size as a deutsche mark and remember feeding slot machines in Germany as we got a better exchange rate using the florin that the Mark!
Zay have ways of making you die!Went to a rock festival in Germany in 1986, I remember where we stayed a lot of bars had cigarette machines outside attached to the walls, 3 x DM coins would dispense a pack of 20, one of our gang discovered you could use a 10p (2s) coin instead of a DM, so 30p instead of almost a pound for 20 cigs !
LOL! I’ve long since quit that habit nowZay have ways of making you die!
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In 1966 with 3 friends we put our cycles on the train to Paris and in those days you had to cross Paris to the station to go south. We arrived 5pm on a Friday evening and rode across Paris to catch a train to Brive le Gaillarde where we toured for 2 weeks. In our naivety did not realise there were so many mountains in that area. Great trip we still laugh about it todayDo you remember the 'good ol' days' of traveling abroad, using Travellers Cheques, a phone box to call home using a phone card.. no internet .
You left Blighty and were out of touch for weeks .. wandering and getting lost, no sat nav, just Michelin maps to navigate, life was so much simpler.. and the roads do much quieter..
I recall being short of cash and couldn't cash a traveler's cheque over a four day French bank holiday weekend, four days with no cash .. and shops wouldn't accept or cash a cheque
My very first trip was in 1972.. MG Midget with a two man tent, with my GF, and future wife, we drove to St Tropez and came back via Switzerland. they say the your first road trip abroad s the best.. can't argue with that..
What do you remember about your early days of travelling abroad .. when was your first trip and where did you go ?
1977 in a Triumph spitfire. Summer after leaving uni. Me and wife to be. Vango mountain tent. Billy cans and gas stove. Drove through France. Car screwed in La Rochelle with a knife used to slice open the hood. Lucky it was sunny!. Drove down the med cost of Spain. Radiator went. Garage wouldn’t take RAC vouchers. Two weeks stuck in Palamos for new radiator to be obtained. It was hell lying on the beach and swimming in the med for those two weeks.Do you remember the 'good ol' days' of traveling abroad, using Travellers Cheques, a phone box to call home using a phone card.. no internet .
You left Blighty and were out of touch for weeks .. wandering and getting lost, no sat nav, just Michelin maps to navigate, life was so much simpler.. and the roads do much quieter..
I recall being short of cash and couldn't cash a traveler's cheque over a four day French bank holiday weekend, four days with no cash .. and shops wouldn't accept or cash a cheque
My very first trip was in 1972.. MG Midget with a two man tent, with my GF, and future wife, we drove to St Tropez and came back via Switzerland. they say the your first road trip abroad s the best.. can't argue with that..
What do you remember about your early days of travelling abroad .. when was your first trip and where did you go ?
1977 in a Triumph spitfire. Summer after leaving uni. Me and wife to be. Vango mountain tent. Billy cans and gas stove. Drove through France. Car screwed in La Rochelle with a knife used to slice open the hood. Lucky it was sunny!. Drove down the med cost of Spain. Radiator went. Garage wouldn’t take RAC vouchers. Two weeks stuck in Palamos for new radiator to be obtained. It was hell lying on the beach and swimming in the med for those two weeks.
Drive home through Andorra to arrive in France on bank holiday weekend. Nowehere to cash travelers cheque and survived on packet soup for two days. Tuesday morning at tha bank pronto to cash an cheque then did a fry up in the municipal car park in front of the bank. Remember that meal even today. No phones. Hassles overcome. Memories.
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