The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-22
TO EUROPE AND BACK
THE COST OF FOREIGN TOUR FROM
THE UNITED STATES.

Ticket Economical People May see "a
Good Donl For SiOo-For $500 one May
Travel over the Continent.
1t is customary to estimate the AVERAGE
amount of money spent by Americans on a
Strip abroad at $1,000 Yet it ought To be
remembered by shallow pocketed and deep
Drained people who hunger for foreign tray
II, yet have not the thousand dollars, that
most satisfactory trips can 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 n
ferry ticket, like one Brooklyn man who
did so and has never regretted it. Eighty
dollars is rather small allowance but
here is what it 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
a certain uncomfortable minimum of food.
Perhaps it isn't worth while to travel I'M
der such deprivations. A man under 25
years of age will vote yes, probably. Older
than that, men care more for creature COM
forts.
Yet even such economy can be made more
endurable by numbers. ! know of n party
of six young men from Harvard who took
steerage passage in the Serva for n vaca-
ton trip. They just filled one row of berths
in one of the big rooms, took turns at wash
ing thor tin dishes and had lots of fun.
The whole trip need not have cost each
more than 800 for a two months absence.
A woman who has saved $3.50 can, if she
finds another woman of like mind and
purse, take u rather extensive trip abroad
by travelling second cabin" at a round
trip expense of SO, 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
a cheaper boat rather than take passage
either in the second cabin or Storage The
absurd European distinctions of Glasses"
are good joke for p short time. In 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. Thus, if the trip is Il short one,
sail to Liverpool or Glasgow; return from
Antwerp or Amsterdam If the trip is
longer and inclusss Switzerland aud Italy,
sail 30 Liverpool or Glasgow (the latter if
Scotland is to be visited; return from Ma
Piles or Genoa. Variety of interest rs well
as economy is secured by this plan. The
cost of the passage from Genoa or Havre is
somewhat greater than from Liverpool, but
the economy in time and travel ashore
more than makes the difference.
An economically arranged tour ashore
will save time and money by being as direct
as possible. Railway travelling, ALWAYS
third class, will cost about 2 cents a mile
and may be reckuned up before starting
with II reasonable approach to accuracy. If
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 Trosachs,
seen Abbotsford aud Melrose, stopped in
Shakespeare country 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 Newhaven,
Dieppe, Paris, Geneva, Lucerne Venice,
Rome, Naples is a route reasonably direct.
1t omits the Netherlands and the Rhine,
which ought not to be omitted They can
be included by detour from Paris, in ,
hansen md Hrr;oi, IN oitha, ny '3on''n
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tbe Low Cn,nt'.iaa or'd th 81, ns
ing north to Paris, or vice versa.
Food and lodging are much cheaper on
the continent than in England ON the
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