Nottingham Evening Post Holidays

[Rhymester 25]

Anyone remember the holidays the Nottingham Evening Post used to run in the seventies?

I'm particularly interested in one that would have been between between 1974 and 1976 and I think it was to Moscow? Would love to find out exactly when it was.

 

Andy

[katyjay 5,090]

If you don't get a response on here I would suggest a letter in the Bygones magazine.

[catfan 14,793]

I remember those holidays, just about.

[jopip 31]

My Dad was on that trip to Moscow. Unable to assist with the exact year but I bought him a Russian fur hat for Christmas either Christmas 74 or 75 so the trip would have been January/February the following year. I remember Dad saying that a group of men on that trip were regulars in the Hand & Heart on Derby Rd.

A funny story... Dad got on the Russian Vodka after a visit to a circus in Moscow & during that night  was physically sick. Whilst vomiting he lost his dentures down the bowl so on the flight home  was unable to eat any solid food & had to drink everything through a straw. Once home Mother was not impressed. Dad then decided to claim for his lost teeth on his travel insurance & put in the claim at five pounds. The claim was accepted by the company but they went on to explain the policy was subject to five pounds excess.

Both Dad & Mum are no longer with us so I'm unable to clarify the year but somewhere in the Russian sewage system is a set of Dads teeth. Anyone finding them can keep them if they fit as Dad has no use for them anymore!

Hope that helps you Rhymester with your inquiry 

[Rhymester 25]

Thanks jopip that's definitely the trip I was thinking of.