In the first few years of the 1960s, in the days just before and then during the Freddie Laker days of early package holidays, my grandparents visited Benidorm in Spain several times.
For people from London who had lived through the Luftwaffe blitz of the 1940s and the killer smog of the 1950s they applied for passports (which was practically unheard of for ordinary people) and set out with pale complexions on an overseas adventure and returned home with healthy Mediterranean suntans and duty free alcohol and cigarettes.
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Have Bag, Will Travel 
1959 was a wonderful summer in England but it couldn’t compete with Spain in 1960, well, not for sunshine hours, anyway.
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1960 England played South Africa in the Test Match series.
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Watneys Red Barrel, now there’s a memory from your earlier post. You also mentioned a Robertson’s Golly in a comment to that post ….. are you allowed to keep that online nowadays 😂😂. Good memories again 👍
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Probably sailing a bit close to the wind!
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Spain, Everything under the Sun! slogan of tourist org !
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No exaggeration there. Wonderful country!
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This is an awesome post! Traveling now is so different than when they did it!
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Travel was a real adventure at that time. Thanks for stopping by.
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They travelled then and now many live there.. 😉
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it looks soo different
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