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Your family album plea has at last motivated me to write in. For nearly 50 years I have held on to three massive journals that my late father compiled to record his experiences of motoring throughout Europe and the UK from the mid-1950s onwards. Much of the contents are daily diaries of places visited and a wonderful window on how motoring in the 1950s and early 1960s was a major adventure. I was lucky to be a passenger on all his early trips and recall as if it was yesterday sitting between mum and dad on the bench seat of a 1950s Hillman Minx as we made our way across France on long straight stretches of poplar-lined roads, reading off the AA guide route and seeing who could be first to glimpse the pre-Alps. Interlaken was our ultimate destination that time. On other trips
