Sir, – Further to recent correspondence (Letters, June 25th), we made it as far as Hungary, having travelled through France, Germany and Austria, in 1985 in my parents’ Fiat 127 pulling a cattle trailer converted to carry a pole tent and stacks of tinned food.
Three kids in the back and no air conditioning, mobile phones, satnav or child seats in those days.
Good times! – Yours, etc,
CONOR O’SULLIVAN,
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