I was having my horizons widened by hearing stories of how foreigners ate plates of lettuce with nothing but oil and vinegar and listening to the catchy pop hit "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie." by Baccara.
Slowly realising that their was a whole world outside the gloomy chip fat drenched region of my birth.
The world was changing along with me in the 70s and I liked the direction it was taking. I loved the decade's willingness to experiment in politics, popular culture and personal interrelationships and I most liked the total saturation of 70s culture and entertainment with science fiction.
I am a lover of all things strange and unusual and I developed these tastes while saturated in popular culture and movies during the 70s.
I loved watching French movies with Romy Schneider, although I saw most much later in a kind of rediscovering of 70s entertainment. Seeing the life these people led and comparing it with that of the lives of the English from 70s entertainment such as TV shows like
The Likely Lads and The Liver Birds and I found English life a little bit wanting.
The Bond movies didn't help, showing the world outside the UK as very exotic and exciting.