The four of us, Steve, Chris and Geoff on a variety of Lambretta scooters and me on a Vespa SS180.
We went to Newquay in Cornwall. From our homes in the Thames Ditton, Claygate and Molesey in Surrey.
The trip was mostly done by train to Exeter St Davids station. The scooters were loaded onto the guard's van at Surbiton.
Those were the days!
The ride from Exeter is now shown on Google Maps as 83 miles and under two hours. On ten year old scooters it took longer than that!
We were there a week. The first holiday I had without family. Great times.
Sadly a few weeks later I got dumped by my first true love.
The SS180 registration MGX 78D was sold soon after to a neighbour.
The photos were taken on a Kodak Instamatic and were scanned this afternoon from Kodachrome slides that have been in a slide box for years. It's the only slides collection left after the flood in my Mum's garage in the mid 80's.
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