In the film Summer Holiday with Cliff Richard what was the planned destination of the London bus that they were travelling in
Summer Holiday (1963 film) West End on 10 January 1963. The story concerns Don (Cliff Richard) and his friends (Hayes, Green and Bulloch) who are bus mechanics at the huge London Transport bus overhaul works in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. During a miserably wet British summer lunch break, Don arrives, having persuaded London Transport to lend him and his friends an AEC Regent III RT double-decker bus (and not a later AEC Routemaster as often quoted). This they convert into a holiday caravan, which they drive across continental Europe, intending to reach the South of France. However, their eventual destination is Athens, Greece. On the way,
London in film the rooftop of a skyscraper. "Paddington" (2014) features several London locations, and includes modern landmarks such as The Shard and the London Eye. Cliff Richard was a film star with three successful musical comedies in the early 1960s. The first of these, "The Young Ones" (1961), was set in London. Cliff, The Shadows, and others need money to save their youth club, so they set up a pirate radio station to generate publicity for the show. Although Cliff's second hit, "Summer Holiday" (1963), mostly took place while driving across Europe, it prominently featured a red London AEC, RT bus. The