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• I liked travel better in the early 2000s [Be Back By Dinner]
“And this is why.”

• Waiting in Madrid: what 1990s travel can teach us about the coming airfare crisis [Brigid Delaney]
“From $9-an-hour pub jobs to $240 fuel surcharges, we are exiting the golden age of frictionless travel. As the conflict in the Gulf reconfigures the map, I’m looking back at 1998 to see our future.”

• Weird and wonderful things you might have forgotten about holidays in the 1970s (archive) [The Telegraph]

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