The morning times., 1896-04-05

US down from Greenwich to Strood. from
StFood to Rochester and then on 70 Can
terbury. We spent more than half d day
getting down 10 Rochester and there made
a round OF its points of interest, rested one
night there, and didn't fetch up I'll Can
terbury until the next afternoon. Here we
caught up our bags and sent them on to
Winchester, gave the afternoon and early
morning to the cathedral, old churches,
etc, and then took to our wheels once more,
determined TO spend Sunday in Winchester.
From Greenwich to Canterbury is a
pull Of forty five miles and as the crow flies
it is nearly hundred more miles on to Win
chester, but we did it easily in the three
days left us a getting down to Canter-
bury had merely enabled US TO get our
bicycle legs on.
After that we found thirty-five to
forty miles day not over hard work.
Sometimes we only accomplished twenty
but we were bent On giving one Sunday to
oxford and one to Stratford, and SO get
back to London and take the Tuesday after
noon steamer, sailing three weeks from
the time of our landing.
SOME OF THE SIGHTS.
"Going TO Winchester, we went so far
out OF the crows track as to pass through
Tunbridge Wells, get a glimpse Of the
channel from Hastings, where the great
parts OF Hampshire. From Winchester we
pushed on to Wiltshire, and saw the great
salisbury Cathedral, and then our course
lay through Berkshire, for while by the
Thames and the second Sunday we rested
up in tiny, clean hotel in the shadow
OF oxford Cathedral.
Monday we devoted to a visit to Bl,n-
helm Castle and the ruins of Cumnor and
Tuesday we were on the road to Stratford
nnl mill ~
day, I remember, but the remainder OF
the week we spent on trips to Warwick
castle and town 10 KeniIworth Coventry
and stonehigh Abbey Then We came back
TO Stratford and lounged about the dear
| littletown, going servicesin Shakespeare's
Church, and visiting Charlecote Park,
where Sir Thomas Lucy's descendants live
ACTUAL EXPENSES.
Monday morning we were all aboard
for London and bound for home. To Win
chester, Oxford and Stratford our teIe-
scope bags had gone on before us, and as
our washable garments consisted only of
night dresses, handkerchiefs and the wooden
things, laundry bills were never over 20
cents apiece. Now for expenses along the
road, we had each set out with $75in cash
That is S63 for the actual costs of daily
living aud $12 extra in case of accidents.
Two of us got back to London with 81 3
i'i Spiu iu OHI pothtts. otlltIS UuU bought
souvenirs and the assets of the most ex
trayagant individual amounted to So.
The items in our account books ran
rather like this: A nights lodging and
breakfast at the White Horse Inn, 81 20:
dinner, 75 cents; luncheon, 25 cents; tips
10 care takers, etc, in historical build
ings, 25 cents. Mind you, that was the
extravagant member who we considered
rather threw her money around. The heed
ful ones got dinners for ahillings, which
amounted to a half dollar, aud luncheon for
10 pence, which is equal TO 20 cents Of
our money, but everywhere we went the
food was clean, plentiful and served with
a sauce OF civility that charmed us. A 2
shilling dinner gave us each great Sec
tion OF fiuc roast beef, bread, bu tier, two