Camping in the 1970s | 1970s Portugal | 70s travel | Sesimbra | Wish you were here? | 1974
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- 'Wish you were here?' presenter Jim Lloyd takes a trip to Sesimbra in Portugal.
Firs shown: 11/03/1974
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Bloody wonderful! I still love Portugal and the Portuguese 50 years later.
Wonderful! My father loved in Portugal in the early 70s and sailed on the Eagle's maiden crossing.
Who did he love in Portugal. Your mother I hope.
First went to Portugal in 1981 - surfed the whole coast north to south, count on one hand the other surfers I saw. Saw more donkey carts. Went back in 86 - surfers common. Finally returned in 2018 --- surfing absolutely ruined by crowds of 'surfing schools' - but my goodness the amazing toll roads, and massively improved infrastructure (EU cash). And the wonderful Portuguese and countryside - perfeito! Muito obrigado o Portugal, te amo!
Not "EU Cash" per se, more OUR cash, and that of every other net contributor.
@@hermanmunster3358 EU Cash!
@@bobrew461 No, tax payers cash. Ie, OUR cash!
Portugal does not take the definite article so it’s “muito obrigado Portugal” :-)
@@hermanmunster3358 Once we paid subs to the EU club, it is no longer "Our cash" just like a gym membership. But we still could enjoy the benefits of said club: No need for visas, no rip-off roaming charges on mobiles, less air pollution, etc. That "Our cash" attitude was one of Maggie Thatcher's many faults. Once we really leave, fools like you will realise that Rees Mog, Farrage, Boris & Co. sold us all down the river!
Cars back then, especially British cars, didn't have air con. And car seats were often made of vinyl, which you used to stick to in hot weather. So to drive in Portugal during high season must have been a nightmare. It was bad enough during British summers.
so long as you were gunning along, no worries....
@@mozdickson My sister and her hubby have a place in Cyorus. They have a Suzuki Vitara to drive while they're out there. I was there last June, with temps hitting 35-40°C. And that car has no air con, so the fan is totally ineffective, I was still melting.
I'm just a typical Brit, that struggles if the temp rises above 25°C, what can I say..
We used to drive to the South West of France every summer and the first time we did it was in an Austin Maxi which had black vinyl seats. My mum bought a load of white towels and staple gunned then over the seats because it was so unbearable. My Dad's next car was a Princess 2200HLS with lovely velour :)
@@johnj3577 God I feel for you, and can almost SMELL the vinyl melting.
British Leyland cars can't have been that bad if they made it that far and presumably got back.
He got me on the "no charge for birds!" what a bargain holiday!!
£3 per night in the hotel - I can go to a fiver if it helps lol
Neste tempo eramos felizes e nao sabíamos ...
Carnation revolution was about to happen...retornados from Africa (Angola Mozambique) would arrive at the ports and look for their crates of goods Crazy times in Portugal
46 years ago ffs! Those were great days. I was 13 then and the summers in the mid 70s always seemed to be sunny.
Loved the fremch Dick Emery at 5:30.
This is strange watching this in colour as portugal didn't have colour tv until 1980....
If I'm not mistaken it was filmed by a British film crew with British colour cameras ...?
Nothing electronic like nowadays. So no wonder its in colour.
Originally aired 6 weeks before the Carnation Revolution... Not much talk about the Salazar Bridge after that...
Thanks. Just learned some unfamiliar history here in Australia.
@@stevepearce6689 That was an interesting chapter... Salazar had been incapacitated since 1968 and died in 1970 but his successor Marcelo Caetano stuck with the concept of the dictatorial "Estado Novo" which wasn't that new anymore.
The Carnation Revolution swept him aside without much bloodshed - and the bridge was renamed...
Wow, thank you for pointing that out.
I am convinced if you meditate and watch every Thames retrospective one after each other you can be transported back to the 70s, escape the CCP Flu. :-P
Inflation calculator at the ready! @ 3:30 that 2 week full board, 4 star hotel with flights for £125 gives a present day price of £1300 (2020) . £3.00 per night is a current £31
Thanks for taking the trouble.
@@TheHorsebox2 ..no problem. It's always interesting to know the comparable cost in today's money.
I was 14 at the time. An impossible dream at those prices back then. It was Butlins or nothing for our unruly lot...
@@doktoruzo so its cheaper for you now or then? i dont know im portuguese i guess its more expensive, things got alot more expensive after the euro, in fact i think we absorbed other countrys inflation, many things doubled in price overnight, all that italian and spanish greek inflation was spread around.
@@schopen-hauer ..Yes, I think you are right. The Euro was not a good thing for British tourists. Portugal was always good value for us back in the 'old days'. I haven't been to Portugal in a long time so can't really comment on what it's like today. Spain is not good value anymore. For really good value and lots of sun, we have been going to Croatia the past few years.
Priceless!
Thank you
I didn’t see one fat person.
Good diets. Plenty of activity. Such a difference.
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/dietary-advice-from-the-1970s-found-to-be-a-big-fat-mistake-10034786.html
they told everyone in 1977 to avoid fats and now we are paying the price
@@theajshortman plenty of exercise and fatty foods mixed in with fruit and veg has kept me reasonably fit most of my life
The only thing I ever did that was wrong was smoke, but after 13 years on/off smoking, I quit and just passed 25 years a non smoker this april gone- and still cycling most days
@charlie cheeseface when I packed up my smoking, didn't get fat, as I was WALKING to/from work, 30 mins each way, 1 hours exercise 6 days a week......
@@Keithbarber Yep exercise plenty of fatty foods and veg, Watch the sugars and carbs. Eat a balanced meal, meat n veg.
Yes however way more people were heavy smokers than now. They might be slim but almost half of the population were heavy smokers and smoking was normalised in public places. Don’t fool yourself into believing people were way healthier back then just because they were less fat.
Hotel do Mar hasn’t changed much!
It’s still recognisable from the film above .
€1300 per week per room B and B in February 2021.
You can double that for August !
Oh happy days...
Holiday for me was Blackpool, maybe Brid or Yarmouth if we were flush.
People are the same as now. Just have to meet the right people.....
Was quite disappointed when he said "the professionals" and Bodie and Doyle didn't appear on the beach!
Lol. Ford Capri stuck in the sand.
Bodie: "Any of you girls got a shovel?"
Sean harding Ah they were the days, of manipulating women.
@@colshythecomedian 🤣👍
@@colshythecomedian The Professionals overdubbed with more fitting dialogue. ua-cam.com/video/TtssVsgo3ss/v-deo.html The chase sequence 3.40 onwards is solid gold. "I Could Have Been In The RSC."
Interesting you could take the car on a ferry all that way, not many routes like that left today, pity really.
1:42 " Petrol at an expensive 52p a gallon" 😭
It was about 40 pence a gallon in the UK at the time.
amazing and great when in the 70s live was free and better and no big worries!! in Portugal now is just full of crap!!
I wonder if these hotels/resorts are still around?
Hotel Do Mar is still there, same name.
@@ronanrogers4127 Glad to know, I guess the area is still pretty lively (coronavirus notwithstanding). en.hoteldomar.pt/
@@ChristopherSobieniak Its full of buildings now
But the coast still the same
Crazy to think that some of those people are already dead and some of those kids are already grandparents.
Funny that the Portuguese talked about “tourist invasion” back then and nowadays they’re literally flooded with tourists.
Its called the passing of the years
keith barber you’re missing the point
@@gaboltl with the passing of the years, older people pass away, and kids grow onto adults
A 48 year old man in 1974 would either be dead or aged into his 90s, if still alive and a 14 year old boy in 1974 would now be 60 years old
keith barber That wasn’t my point, again.
@but ton You are missing it. We all do.
Petrol at a rather expensive 52p per gallon.
£3 a night Four Star
It feels shocking to hear that called the Salazar bridge now... it was renamed after the coup.
you are an ridiculous person! learn history before you comment!! twat
there are no positive tips on the changing of this documentary. i like the theme, it's strong. but the channeling of the speech... it's from the 70's ok. keep on posting records from another time
Petrol, 52 pence a gallon....a gallon!
I remember 33p per gallon :0
DF ? 12 p for a tent for the night ??
Yeah, the robbing sods.
@@TheHorsebox2 🤣😂. Andy England 🇬🇧👍
@@andrewdaley3081 🤣🤣
We're is that little boy with white cap in yellow car today
I can guess where the yellow Maxi is - probably didn’t last 10 years after this video was made. As for the young boy, he’s probably in his mid-50s right now and has no idea he is having his 15 seconds of fame on an old Thames TV clip uploaded to UA-cam.
He's now a burly bouncer on the campsite. He still wears the sailor cap, but you don't laugh if you want to keep your face.
@@RoadCone411 Harvest Gold Austin Maxi !!!!!!
Mike G What a colour!
Go to Portugal and take your caravan...... Lol
Yes but what they don't tell you about these foreign holidays is you have to pay the taxi to the airport or or pay for your car to be parked at the airport for the week while you are at Portugal or any overseas holiday then you have to queue up up in the airport then you have to do exactly the same in a foreign speaking airport a couple of hours later then you have to buy the water because you may be sick then you are not guaranteed the weather when you have spent x amount of money to go there then you have to do all that over again at the airport On the way back and not forgetting the foreign money exchange and the language so to me it is better go to a Holiday in Britain..... it's less stressful I have done the foreign holidays and I don't like the airport's
Portugese driving habits:
1. Drunk all weekend
2. Reversing out of any side road/driveway straight into main road traffic
3. The older ones can't see over the steering wheel
Huge chunks of virgin hillside are being raped by developers. But along side the rape stand buildings that are sophistically seductive.
Was this standard vocab in the 70’s??
I wonder if this is popping up now because of the McCain girl. The man accused of taking her supposedly spend a lot of time camping in Portugal.
That's an awful top that he's wearing. And why he is making male model poses occasionally? A lot of people were just so much more natural, easy going, and effortlessly chilled out in the 1970s.
Gay?
@@fasthracing vanity
That kind of thing was the fashion then, don't you know !!?
You certainly wouldn't get away with describing "virgin land" as being "raped" nowadays
Salazar and Franco make Donald Trump look like a total amateur - not that difficult of course.
shut up u Marxist douche
@@jackjones3190 lol criticizing salazar, franco and trump makes him (and me) a marxist?
@@emanuelmiranda6815 I think just by mentioning Trump gets their radar signals jammed and blam, we're all Marxists or whatever.
@@heliumtrophy yeah bc if we're all Marxists by hating Salazar and Franco then 90% of iberians are marxist. never thought of my parents being marxists but learning everyday
A lot of these people these days would be small-minded Brexiteers.
oh you are so cultured and worldly......what an embarrassment u are ....give your self a slap
A rather sweeping statement by a small minded person 😊
knob head
Give it a rest.
You very sad pathetic little Volvo driver
1974 was the beginning of the end, when Portugal stopped being Portuguese and became another European Communist hell hole 😢.
I prefer Spain. More bigger and rich in everything. Portugal is a sad and poor country. If Europe is a house; Portugal is the worse room of the house.
sick person
Spain is more suitable for you since they also cant speak English
That's why everyone disproportionately visits and even wants to live in said room.