My Life in the Air
June 9th 2023 Born in 1951 to working-class parents, I spent my youth travelling by train and bus. We never ventured outside of England for holidays, so it wasn’t until I started travelling by myself to mainland Europe that I boarded a plane for the first time.
I can’t remember my first flight. It wasn’t going to Holland and Germany on a school holiday circa 1966, when we crossed the Channel by boat. It
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