I went travelling a lot when I was young, all round the UK in the campervan and later the car touring a caravan...those where the days huh?

I'd forgotten all about getting your photo taken when you got off the plane! Remember how the photos were all pinned on a board when you arrived back at the airport for your flight home, and you could buy them. Changed days indeed!

Everything you have mentioned reminds me of my childhood holidays, even having your photo taken going down the stairs of the plane! That was when I was still on my parents' passports, you didn't have to have one for children then. I can remember going to the travel agents with my mum to book the holiday and it was amlost as exciting as going away. We would take huge suitcses and have a different outfit for every day.

Yes, things have certainly changed.

Oh smoking on a plane, how I loathed this, both my parents smoked. 9 hours on a flight to Florida encased in smoke, bleurgh.

Helen

Cabin crew passing out sweets for take off, a small bag of peanuts with your drink from the bar, a complimentary bottle of wine with your meal.

One other thing, I'm sure on the first few flights I took, the pressure of the take off seemed to push you back into the seat.

Oh, and applauding the flight crew on landing!

Mobor One wrote:

Cabin crew passing out sweets for take off, a small bag of peanuts with your drink from the bar, a complimentary bottle of wine with your meal.

I still get that with many of the airlines I fly with.

lol Judith so do i.

my first abroad holiday was my honeymoon in 1989, flew with DanAir, remember them with the blue uniforms. Went to hotel Pinsmar in Santa Susanna / Malgrat, only booked it cos we liked the name and it had a sea view. But completely didnt understand how bad it was having the railway line in front of the hotel.

we won a donkey playing bingo and some cheap plonk which we drank cos we were skint. we had £200 if that between 2 of us for 2 weeks, good job the hotel was half board we took crusty cobs and butter and jam from breakfast to have at dinner. We had a pound left on the last day and had to borrow 50p of my neighbour to pay the taxi home. Since then we always put at least £50 to one side and have taxi money separate as well.

We were introduced to green beans and ham for a starter that year god it nearly made us sick.

before then our holidays were always at Pontins, blackpool, southport or prestatyn. hubby only got a day out to brighton or somewhere when he was a kid.

now my 2 girls dont know they're born they've only had 1 Welsh caravan holiday all the others were abroad. mind you we've been dumped by the 18 year old to go .... camping instead of going to Icmeler.

Bev (who was Not the weakest link)

My first ever trip abroad was a school trip to Paris - it was dead exciting because we flew Glagow - London - Paris, so we got 2 flights each way!! AND there was a celebrity on the plane out of London - Petula Clark, the singer, who ,as I recall, was very nice to all these strange schoolkids crowding her for autographs.

When we got to Paris we were right in the middle of the student riots (it was 1968) which we thought was great, but apparently the parents at home were less than happy, to say the least!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXg6hfhyg2c&feature=player_embedded
Doesn't this ad bring back the memories?

Magic memories, I can remember a friend hiring a Fiat clockwork mouse for his family of 5 and then complaining it didn't go very well up mountains. I also felt a complete plonker uttering my first Spanish words