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Traveller from an Antique Land


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#1 clinkeroo

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Posted 05 January 2007 - 08:33 AM

Traveller from an Antique Land


The birth of the commercial jet had created a new world after the Second World War. Airports went from fields covered with dust and smelling of oil, to being huge, multi-terminal monstrosities that dealt with millions of travellers in a sanitised, sterile world that always seemed to have a metallic, American taste no matter where one was flying about the globe.

To say that James Bond preferred to travel by train, or by sea, would be a vast understatement, and yet he was a forced denizen of this new world, a slave to the demands of the grey little building in Regent

Edited by clinkeroo, 07 January 2007 - 07:48 PM.