I always enjoy looking at vintage photographs. So when I stumbled across Blogtrotter Revisited: the 70s and 80s (courtesy of a tweet by @gutterbookshop), I swooned. The blog is a collection of images taken on the travels of one globetrotting couple in – you guessed it – the seventies and eighties. There is also a nineties version of the blog though, and two ‘contemporary’ ones (found here and here), documenting their travels in real time.
Here’s some eighties Dublin, for your interest/amusement… LOVE yer wan’s patterned trousers, and the cars outside the Bank of Ireland!
I also rummaged through the archives for a few ‘best of the rest’ pics, from various places around the world. These are all from the same 70s/80s blog as the Dublin snaps – I spent so long trawling through them that I’ve yet to check out the more modern ones!
These pictures make me want to drop everything, hop on a boat or plane, and discover new worlds.
Rosa Abbott is an arts, fashion and culture obsessive originating from Yorkshire, England, and currently living in Dublin, Ireland. On top of being a student at the illustrious Trinity College, she is a freelance journalist, writing for a number of Irish publications, and also edits the visual arts section of entertainment magazine Totally Dublin.
When she’s not up to her eyeballs in writing, Rosa works as an assistant to stylist Aisling Farinella and volunteers at various art galleries. Her musings on life, style and art can also be found over at her blog, Too Gallant.
