Top travel reasons to miss the era of materialism, rock ballads and hair higher than the heavens. Calling all Bosses and Bettys! Your lives were showered in pink and your love for Molly Ringwald bordered on obsessive.
Still, between the everest-sized shoulder pads and equally high hair, you travelled in a state of luxe and leisure.
Here are five reasons why travelling in the eighties, with Duran Duran blasting through your walkman, was the bombdiggity (is that how you say it?).
1.You were always thin
Teeny tiny portions
While Jane Fonda home videos (in BETA) were partly to blame for your rockin’ bod, staying lithely during travel was much easier back in the day because food was served to you in teeny tiny, microscopic portions.
Nouvelle cuisine was all the rage in the eighties. The bill, usually a few hundred dollars a pop, was not. Neither were the 3AM fast food drive-bys that you secretly indulged in to appease your growling stomachs (promise, we won’t tell a soul!).
2. You packed lighter
Double denim? More like double trouble.
Because your jeans could double as your top. Double denim (more like double trouble) took the guess work out of travel attire.
I hope you enjoyed it because most of us hope that it stays in the deepest, darkest corners of your wardrobe never to see the light of day again. Are you listening, Britney Spears!?
3. You didn’t have to travel to a remote Eastern European diskoteka to light up
Smoking Madonna
I understand. Some of you applaud the new and improved stringent measures most governments are taking nowadays to keep our air clean and our venues smoke-free.
Though, there was something alluring about smoking in the corner of a club, skulking into your pina colada, while you rolled up your jacket sleeves and teased your perm.
Don’t look at me like that. I know you used to have a perm and I bet you have a streaking cap stored somewhere among the rubble of your medicine chest.
4. You lived in a material world
Desperately seeking fashion!
By the mid eighties recession was a thing of the past and you were now in the black. This reflected on your choice of travel and destination.
The main reasons to travel back in the eighties were food and shopping.
New York, Paris, London, Milan weren’t just distant fashion meccas with even more distant post codes to you. You travelled there with empty suitcases and a heart full of material desires.
You also travelled in a DeLorean because Michael J. Fox endorsed it.
5. You could get away with murder…literally.
The Lampoons could have been concealing lord knows what.
Airport video surveillance slowly started to trickle in during the early eighties but it was certainly not to the big brother-esque standards of today.
You could still manage to pass a few unmentionables picked up on your cheeky weekend away with that blonde from..where did she say again?
Or the handcuffs you kept as a souvenir from your night with Derek. Of course his name was Derek. Everyone was called Derek back then.
6.You wore ugly jumpers
They kept you warm during travel? No. No one should be subjected to that shame…