As the weather starts to turn distinctly autumnal here in London, it's time, methinks, for a little sojourn into the lives of impossibly glamorous people in gloriously sunny locations again - courtesy of the ever-wonderful Soft Tempo Lounge!
I'm getting a distinctly "Patsy Stone" vibe from this one...
[Music: Alan Downey - Travel Theme (STL edit). Original film: Maroc 7 (1967)]
How glamorous. The life of a globe trotting model. I suppose they work just for the opportunity to travel and wear those beautiful clothes. But tying them up to a bunch of camels? Well... that's pushing it, don't you think!
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DeleteTwo weeks from $29! That was around the time my first roundtrip ticket on BOAC from NYC to London cost $75. I didn’t much like this music then either.
ReplyDeleteThese are UK travel brochures, so that's sterling, not dollars. Back in 1974 the exchange rate was $2.64 to the pound, so that two-week break was $76.56 - more-or-less the same as your flight! I bet you got starched uniforms and silver-service in-flight meals, though... Jx
DeleteArgh. Of course I saw it was pounds sterling. I should have done the calculations. And, yes, it was very classy service.
DeleteAccording to the inflation calculator £29 is about £335 in today's money, I saw an advertisement in Hays shop window for a trip to Rhodes for £245 yes, two four five for a week! it didn't mention anything about airport parking, travel insurance, airport transfers, access to the VIP lounge etc were included, I wasn't seduced.
ReplyDeleteI'd stick to Benidorm, Mitzi. It's cheaper, and at least there you know where the blowjobs are. Jx
DeleteI have no idea where the blowjobs are in Benalmádena.
DeleteAll that sort of thing's in Torremolinos, rather than Benalmadena... Jx
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ReplyDelete'Soft Tempo Lounge' has returned to it's normal programming.
No guns or exploding cars. Hurrah !
But some of those chunky earrings would never pass Health and Safety.
Surprised there wasn't a nasty earring-and-billowy-kaftan-scagging incident. Jx
DeleteAh, this is the one where Patsy sells Saffy into slavery, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteEddie: "Study? You don't go to Marrakech to study, darling."
DeletePatsy: "No you don't!"
Eddie: "There are lots of reasons to go to Marrakech and studying is not one of them, sweetie. You go to Marrakech for I don't know, drugs, dirt-cheap plates and rugs."
Patsy: "Yeah, easy-going sex with gorgeous, under-age youths..."
Eddie: "Yeaaah. Sex changes, doesn't it, Pats? Well, not now, anyway. Not now, anymore. The only thing I was in danger of sleeping with was a donkey, and even he did a runner."
Yes. That one. Jx
Is the photographer played by Leslie Philips??!
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I believe it is. Ding, Dong! Jx
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