Bad hotels, worse food, and clouds of cigarette smoke: What holidays in the 1970s were really like
No riff-raff Credit: Getty Contemplation of the 1970s is breaking out all over, possibly as a refuge from the awfulness of the 2020s. In general, it is treated with levity, a cartoon decade of lava lamps, Bay City Rollers, disco balls, bean bags and all the gaiety that was Hugh Scanlon. That said, it was also my heyday, partly because I roared through it fuelled by Party Sevens, Players N°6, and the fact that I looked pretty good in loon pants. And partly because I suddenly became old enough to travel. The Seventies and I had our moments. This is how it was when overseas was less foreseeable...
Source: telegraph.co.uk