For a taste of how things were in times past, when international travel used to be fun, I would recommend a trip on the superb high-speed train system that operates in Spain linking Madrid to the country’s other major cities.In my humble opinion the "fun travel" period was from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. This was before the full-on advent of mass budget air travel, the benefit of which has been affordable flights to wherever you want to go in the world. But it has come at what I would term high "personal costs". These include being shoehorned into ever diminishing seat space.To experience what the standard airplane seat used to be like you now have to fork out more than double the normal economy fare to pay for a "premium economy" seat.Then there’s the frustration of being subjected to ever tightening security measures imposed in airports by robot-like officials operating on a "zero tolerance" policy. Interact with them as humans at your very real peril.So it was a "blast from...
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