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1950s travel in 2009
By Derick King
1950s travel in 2009 – Part 1 I remember a time back in the 1960’s when tourism was in its infancy. In the late 1960’s my family travelled by aeroplane to Ibiza in the Mediterranean for a holiday. The aeroplane was propeller driven and we walked down a flight of stairs onto the tarmac and walked into the single one room one storey airport. I was wearing a suit and tie because that’s what we did in those days. Last September 2009 I was travelling to France for a week to call on a business person I was dealing with. I had booked a flight from Manchester to La Rochelle, the French town with an airport situated on the west coast of France, some way south of the large town of Nantes. After all the security preliminaries, at Manchester airport, I found myself standing in a huddle with other travellers waiting for some doors to open to board our plane. I looked out of a window at all the massive 300 seat aeroplanes and standing amongst them was what looked to me like a model aeroplane in comparison. It was a low tiny slim thing with propellers. I joked to the man standing nearest to me “I hope we’re not travelling on that one.” He gave a smile, “Yes that’s our plane, that’s the type we always fly on.” I gave him a look and could see he meant it. The double doors slid open and we came to a platform and stairs leading down onto the runway and that’s when it hit me. I was in a time warp back to far earlier days. I walked down the metal stairs and onto the tarmac and walked over to the plane and ascended up a flight of stairs into the aircraft. It was a ninety seat model. There was one walkway with double seats on either side. I sat down in one of the double seats, next to the window. No-one sat next to me. I fact I could only see a few travellers dotted about. The aircraft was only half full. There was a delicious sense of sitting in an armchair in a library on a sunny day. I half expected to hear the buzz of insects and birds singing. I was not one of the ants in the anthill. This was totally different. It was a casual, stress free way of flying in the sky. After ninety minutes we descended low over a calm sea and landed at La Rochelle airport.
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A nice piece of nostalgia, Derick. I still remember the odd time I flew on a prop plane. Bone shakers, noisy, but with bags of character.
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Thank you for sharing this interesting story, Derick.
Keep up the good work.
Best wishes.
FFrederick
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