My first flight was in the 50's from London to Entebbe. We stopped in Rome, Cairo, Khartoum and then Entebbe. I remember the Ladies in the aircraft was full of Elizabeth Arden products for the passengers use. Also the Stewardess used to make up a bed for my brother and me with proper sheets and blankets.
I still have some of the menus from those flights. Beautifully designed on thick card with fantastic choices of food and wines finishing with turkish or virginia cigarettes. Those were the days.
My last flight was Ryanair to Seville. The sublime to the ridiculous.
However, I think the flight in the 50's cost about £100 for a child which was a lot of money then.. It must have been before 1956 because after Suez we used to land in Libya instead of Cairo. I still remember all the crashed WW2 planes lining both sides of the runway.
It’s been a while so I will start us off…….whats for supper and why?


I remember our local airport as a huge corrugated shed with a long table where we handed over our suitcases. Blankenberg was very exotic - chips with mayo, chocolates shaped like seafood, a glass boot filled with orange juice in a beerkeller. We went to Amsterdam for the day (I still have the little wooden clogs brooch somewhere) and saw the endless rows of graves at Dunkirk. 