Looking Back at the Hippie Trail ; Life On Sunday in the 1960s and 1970s When Youngsters Were Being Encouraged to 'Turn On, Tune in and Drop Out', Many Adventurous Brits Hit 'the Hippy Trail'. Some Went in Search of Enlightenment, Others for Different Reasons. But Did They Find What They Were Looking For? Pauline Holt Tracked Down Three North Hippy Trail Veterans...

Sunday Sun › November 27, 2007

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IT was a travel adventure you just couldn't undertake today. Well, not without a flak jacket and body guard.

But during the height of hippiedom in the 1960s and 1970s, a steady stream of intrepid youngsters from throughout Europe, America and the Antipodes went in search of adventure travelling overland through Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to India and beyond.

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Looking Back at the Hippie Trail ; Life On Sunday in the 1960s and 1970s When Youngsters Were Being Encouraged to 'Turn On, Tune in and Drop Out', Many Adventurous Brits Hit 'the Hippy Trail'. Some Went in Search of Enlightenment, Others for Different Reasons. But Did They Find What They Were Looking For? Pauline Holt Tracked Down Three North Hippy Trail Veterans...

It was the age before cheap flights and for many, their Asian odyssey was long and arduous and usually done on a shoestr ing.

Author, Janet MacLeod Trotter, of Morpeth, Northumberland, 49, and a mum of two, admits she was an "innocent abroad" when she boarded a Swagman Tours bus in September 19...

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