Welcome to Episode 090 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast.
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about nostalgia. I mean, I always have, but I think over time my feelings have changed about it. There’s so many people who think ‘life was better when I was young’, and I wanted to probe more into that, into how I felt about nostalgia, why people of my generation tend to be nostalgic, and also put some colder facts around it.
I also took a couple of trips recently to the places I grew up in, and it was interesting to compare memories of those places with how those places vibe nowadays.
Topics discussed in this episode are:
- I have moved house yet again
- Music and TV from my younger days
- Why nostalgia is different for older generations than younger ones
- “The Good Old Days”
- 1970s comedy is barely golden
- How nostalgia can affect your world outlook
- The world is a better place now, statistically
- Aircraft safety has improved
- Foreign Office Travel Advice from February 1998
- Some things change, some stay the same
- The House(s) I Grew Up In
- How it feels to go back to a childhood area
- Birmingham and La Rochelle – when I tried to be amatonormative
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There are no direct contributions in this pod, though you do hear the voices of my co-conspirator V, my step-dad, and my friend Sarah, not that one, this is someone I went to Primary School with, and who might well be the person outside of family who I’ve known the longest – we met at the school gates on our first day.