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"There was no high speed rail, there were no low cost flights, there were less coaches -- and overall travel was on a totally different level than today," Alexander Mokros, chairman of Eurail, tells CNN Travel. Tim Thomas took photographs of his 1970s interrailing adventures including this shot of Copenhagen train station."I've always enjoyed train travel, and so I went with a friend who I'd been at school with," he says.
"We got our full month's worth, and I've kept all the itineraries with the detail of the individual trains and the distances involved," says Thomas. Thomas reckons they were lucky that, as 18-year-olds exploring their first taste of independence, the biggest obstacle they faced en route was sunburn. They enjoyed pretty much every day of the trip.Tim Thomas was 18 when he first went interrailing. Here he is on his second interrail trip, visiting Zadar, then in Yugoslavia, now in Croatia, in 1973.Martin McKee, who grew up in Northern Ireland, set out on his inaugural Interrail trip in 1972. Only 15, he traveled with three friends from school.
Snapping photos of the length and breadth of Europe, Thomas tried to avoid getting people in his photos. But today, looking through his slides, he enjoys the ones with photobombing strangers more than the emptier scenes -- they offer a taste of life in Europe at the time, 1970s bell bottom jeans and all.Interrailing through the 1970s
On the first trip, in 1975, Harpham and her then boyfriend packed up their backpacks and a two-person tent and snaked across Europe by rail, reaching Istanbul in Turkey.
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