Summer Holiday
Nov. 6th, 2004 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloWe've booked a holiday. We're going by coach to Northern Spain to look at the Picassos.
Then the brochure arrived. All the people in all the publicity shots are grey. There's not a single, young, fit, happening twenty-year old. Everyone- but everyone- is over 50.
Young people do not travel by coach to Northern Spain to look at the Picassos.
I should have guessed as much. But I didn't. My very ignorance betrays how out of touch I am.
We have booked ourselves onto a package holiday for senior citizens.
(Long pause for reflection.)
Oh...........
Then the brochure arrived. All the people in all the publicity shots are grey. There's not a single, young, fit, happening twenty-year old. Everyone- but everyone- is over 50.
Young people do not travel by coach to Northern Spain to look at the Picassos.
I should have guessed as much. But I didn't. My very ignorance betrays how out of touch I am.
We have booked ourselves onto a package holiday for senior citizens.
(Long pause for reflection.)
Oh...........
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Date: 2004-11-06 11:49 am (UTC)-And yes... English trains... They're so... quaint! (=shoddy)