4 things about travel millennials will NEVER understand
Anthony Peregrine looks back on some aspects of travel that were totally normal in his youth, but are gone forever now
1. HITCH-HIKING
There was a time when flights cost a year's rent (not the price of a sandwich), so youths would gather in droves outside towns, raise their thumbs and chuck themselves upon the hazards of life.
Hitch-hiking carted us round for free in the company of people who'd open up about their dreams and deceptions precisely as they were never going to see us again.
2. SMOKING ON PLANES
Cigarettes were confined to the back of the plane - from about row 25 - on the sound scientific principle that, at 27,000 feet, smoke couldn't possibly drift forward to row 24 and annoy anyone.
3. NO SECURITY CHECKS AT AIRPORTS
There was a time when you weren't obliged to hold your trousers up because the belt was in a tray, could keep your shoes on and your toothpaste secret, and you weren't subject to the whims of airport staff whose combined IQ wouldn't out-gun a shoal of tuna. ("You pack this yourself, sir?" "No, I employ a team of elves.")
Back then you'd wander through customs and, so long as you weren't actually toting a Luger, generally you went untroubled.
4. POSTCARDS
Back then you had four lines on one postcard per trip. Today it's 1,000-word blogs, hourly posts on Facebook and 173 Instagram pictures of your dinner. - The Telegraph..
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