When was your first time .

I class myself a bit of a retired but well-seasoned traveller. The first time was a long train journey from Hannover in the north of Germany to Stuttgart in the south. I travelled alone with a note around my neck with the necessary information with the train steward keeping an eye out for me, I was nine years old and travelled to spend the long summer holidays with my grandparents. This happened between 1956 and the last time was in 1961 without the note around my neck. They were lovely summers and very memorable. The first flight was, of course, an Air Force Family plane a four propeller job. I mainly flew with British Airways but also with Britannia, Caledonian, KLM, Lufthansa, Air Malta, Iberian and with Holiday companies which had their own planes like Horizon. I probably have been to most places our Janet has been too, only she had taken the slow and enjoyable route. I have never been to France, Italy or Austria or Portugal but Greece, Corfu Island, Majorca, Menorca, Malta, Tenerife, Tunesia but not to Egypt and three times long haul but non-stop to India to the Hippie state of Goa and the other long flight on a DC10 to Aden (Yemen). How I miss those times but I have my memories and lots of now fading photos. @Happygirl @roz @Janet 💋🍰🍝🍹

Never, I have never been on a plane or abroad and to be honest I don.t ever want to. @Janet 💋🍰🍝🍹

One and only time I went on a plane, well twice really, there and back, was to Lourdes with my daughter with a charity based in Manchester.

It was the year 2000 my daughter was 11 years old and the school had put her name forward to go.

She suffered a stroke when she was nine which has left her disabled. The trip was all well organised and we enjoyed it immensely.

I am scared of heights so I thought flying in a plane would be scary but it wasnt, it was wonderful, I loved flying.

I remember it well. It was the 17th of June 1965. It was an Army Family Flight on a 50 seater propeller plane. I had the window seat and my soldier husband kept saying to me - keep watching the wing, see the jumping screw when it drops, the wing will come off. All I said was, well the swim vest is under the seat and I can swim. Can you swim? (knowing that he could not) there are no parachutes on board. His answer was but what happens when we are over land, not water. Then, I said to him, we better grow wings and fast. That ended the friendly argument. I always enjoyed flying but I would not like to be confined on a boat, ship or cruise liner I think I would not like to be confined for weeks on end no matter how nice and luxurious. I have been a lot on the ferries every which way - Dover/Hoek of holland, Dover/Zeebrugge, Ostende/Dover and also Bremerhafen/Harwich. Big ferries did not mind the ruff sea at some time but it was the small space and always glad to have firm ground beneath my feet. You would think, the same could apply to flying but somehow it is different.

I can't quite remember what age I was when I first went on a plane, but I was very young. I either went to Italy or Holland @Janet 💋🍰🍝🍹