Before one of my recent trips to Bulgaria, I was surfing the net for information about the country in general. I came across a line on a property website that claimed Bulgaria is like Spain 30 years ago. It set me thinking
When I was in my early teens I travelled across Europe with my younger brother and parents every summer. We would just set off with no clear plans as to where we were going to end up, but a rough idea of when we would be back, which was basically when we were down to our last pound note!
We didnt have the luxuries I or my children take for granted as todays seasoned travellers such as crisp clean hotel beds and room service. We either had an over- ladened roof rack, stacked high with our camping gear and clothes, or if we were a little better off that summer, we had a second hand caravan hitched to the back of our old car. I remember the caravan was always sold on our return to tide us over while Dad went back to work.
I vividly remember one summer, when my father had ingeniously welded together two bread vans yes bread vans and made them into a camper van, but the really clever bit was, when we arrived on the camp site, the rear...