Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TRANSATLANTIC travelers whose passports relegate them to over-29 status can also take their trips for less than standard fare. They must usually sacrifice some mobility, plan well in advance and sort through a bewildering maze of ticket prices. The variety is so great that each passenger in a six-across row of a 707 airliner may have paid a different amount for his ticket. The round-trip New York-London economy fare in peak season is $555, and the price is just about the same for trips between London and Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington. Some ways...
...nomads travel light: a few old pullovers wadded into a knapsack and a few hundred dollars stuffed into their jeans. Many of the girls are unsupported by anything but their male companions. While some of these not-so-innocents abroad may have well-planned itineraries, most are rather aimlessly following crowds of their countrymen in a quest for good vibrations. They are joining millions of footloose European youths, who are wandering far and wide from Hammerfest to Gibraltar-and points even farther out. Whatever their mother tongue, the youngsters manage to communicate. They speak a sort ot Jeunesperanto, and they...
...sleeping in youth hostels (from 65? to little more than $1 a night), hitchhiking and mooching meals from friendly Europeans. One compromise with comfort, however, is a money saver: a new category of Eurailpass for students 14 to 25 costs only $125 for two months' unlimited second-class travel and sleeping on trains. All together, 104,000 Eurailpasses were sold in 1970, and travel agents expect sales to rise by 45% this year...
...sleeping in London's St. James's and Green parks, though normally forbidden by police, is being tolerated this year. University cafeterias in Germany and Switzerland sell rib-sticking meals for less than a half dollar. Specially cheap flights within Europe are offered by the British Student Travel Center and other official youth organizations to full-time high school and college students who have convincing identification. Sample one-way prices: London to Paris $13.20, London to Leningrad $48. Belgian railroads give 50% reductions to students. The municipal steam baths of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo charge only...
...parents' faces when they got my postcard and realize I'm here." But a taste of Eastern Europe's goulash tourism is often prohibitively expensive, and the Soviets have been known to stretch the charge of "disseminating anti-Soviet propaganda" to cover even travel guides...