The Helena independent., 1893-08-31
TO EUROPE AND BACK.
The Reasonable Cost OF a Forejgn n
Tour From the United
States
Trip OF a Man Who Started Out
With $50 and O Ferry
Ticket.
The Economical May SEQ y Good Dsa
for $lOO--For $500 One May
Travel Far.

IL Is customary to estimate the average
nmount of money spent by Americans on n
trip abroad at $1,000. Yet it ought to be
remembered by shallow pocketed and deep
Drained people who hunger for foreign trav-
el, yet have not the thousand dollars, that
most satisfactory trips ca6 be taken for
much less than half that amount
There may be few who are willing to set
out upon European tour with $40 and q
ferry ticket, like one Brooklyn man who
did SO and has never regretted it. Eighty
dollars Is rather a small allowance, but
here is what 1t will do: Passage to Liver
pool and from Amsterdam or Antwerp,
steerage In both cases, railroad and other
transit through Scotland and England, to
Paris and through the Low Countries and
q certain uncomfortable minimum of food
Perhaps it isn't worth while to travel un-
der such deprivations. A man under Is
years of age will vote yes, probably. Older
than that, men care more for creature conf
forts
Yet even such economy can be made.more
endurable by numbers. l know of a party
of six young men from Harvard who took
steerage passage in the Servia for n vaca-
tion trip. They just filled one row Of berths
In one of the big rooms, took turns at wash
ing their tin dishes and had lots Of fun.
The whole trip need not have cost each
more than 500 for two months absence.
A woman who has saved $3.50 can, If she
finds another woman of like mind and
purse, take rather extensive trip abroad
by travelling second cabin" at a round
trip expense Of $40, leaving as much more
for shore expenses Second cabin is per
fectly clean, comfortable and respectable,
with plenty of food and effective if not al
ways deferential service. Most Americans
will, however, prefer to travel first cabin in
cheaper boat rather than take passage
either in the second cabin or steerage The
absurd European distinctions of 'classes"
are good joke for short time. Ina week
and in the close companionship of ship
board they become uncomfortable
The necessary cost of first cabin passage
to Liverpool and return is not less than
500 and may be much more, to which add
nearly 10 per cent for fees. A great many
dollars may be saved, however, by taking
outward and homeward passage by differ
ent lines. THIS, if the trip is a short one,
sail to Liverpool or Glasgow; return from
Antwerp or Amsterdam. If the trip is
longer and includes Switzerland and Italy.
soil to Liverpool or Glasgow (the latter if
Scotland is to be visited); return from Ma
plsa or Genoa. Variety of interest as we'll
as economy is secured by this plan. The
cost OF the passage from Genoa or Havre is
somewhat greater than fro Liverpool, but
the economy in time and travel ashore
more than makes the difference.
An economically arranged tour ashore
will save time and mon y by being as direct
as possible. Railway travelling always
third class, will cost about 2 cents mile
and may be reckoned up before starting
witt h Il H.
points of interest do not lie near the line of
route, omit them. There are others as good.
The economical traveller who has gone from
Glasgow to Edinburgh by the Trosaehs,
seen Abbotsford aud Melrose, stopped in
Shakespeare &C lntry and seen Oxford, is
ready to proceed to London, with whatever
cathedral towns have happened to lie in his
path-say Durham and York and from
London direct to the continent, not to re-
turn.
From London to Italy by Eewhaven,
Dieppe, Paris, Geneva, Lucerne, Venice,
Rome, Naples, is q route reasonably direct
1t omits the Netherlands and the Rhine.
which ought not to be omitted They can
be included by a detour from Paris, in
which case Switzerland is entered by Schaff-
hausen and Zurich. In either case-in any
case-the journeys widest separated points
should be the seaport of arrival and depar-
ture if possible. OF trip not including
Italy the port of return may be Havre or
Rotterdam. In this case one goes south by
the Low Countries and the Rhine return
ing north to Paris, or vice versa
Food and lodging are much cheaper on
the continent than in England. On the
average an energetic traveller can get along
nicely in perfect comfort, but not in "style,"
for l.50 day. Two, sharing meals and
rooms, can make it on e. so a day, or even
less with extreme economy. In Paris a
dinner, "flling'' in quantity and really not
so very dreadful in quality, can be bought
for rs cents, lunch for 30 cents, lodging
and breakfast in the Latin quarter. the
pleasantest and most convenient part of
the city, for from as cents to 50 cents. Out
OF so allowance one can save quarter
or SO day to use on the road, where living
is more expensive, as in Scotland.
Ocean passage, with fees, by cheap lines
$1lO or upward; 1850 miles of railroad fare
at cents mile, 80 60 days living at 81. so
a day, $9o incidentals, whatever you like
to make them; guidebooks, in which one
should never economize, S15; reserve fund
$50. These are the chief essentials of q
splendid continental trip, including bit
OF Scotland, England, Paris, the Rhine
Switzerland Ton fooD and bit of Italy
without the Low Countries, or the Low
Countries without Italy, going by Glasgow
and returning from Naples or Amsterdam
Altogether $500 should cover everything
Such a trip involves some walking in
mountain regions, patronizing cheap ho-
tele which are often the most homeh1e,
and total Independence of hacks, which
is achieved by carrying one's belongings in
single light grip and striking out boldly
for lodgings in every town by the aid of the
Ruidebook's street map.-John l.. Heaton
in New York Recorder
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