Evening journal., 1909-08-21
SEEING EUROPE
NOT EXPENSIVE
FOur-MOnth Trip May be
Made at a Cost Of Only
$500

and what ] wanted TO get out OF H.
When a woman has passed into her
thirties without travelling 100 miles ava
from her home town, while her friends
have been In almost every quarter OF /
the globe. you know how she feels" /
The speaker was a woman from the /
Southwest, who stopped in New York |
the other day on her way to make her |
eighth wheeling trip abroad. "The |
question with me was whom to 20
with rather than where 20 CO." she
went on. "As / had never been abroad
all countries were about equally at
| tractive The main point was to get
some one who was willing to travel In
the cheap way necessary to make my
$500 hold out for four months" says
/ the New York sun.
THAT person. when found, proved TO
be the college chum OF friend I had
known since my girlhood. She declared
that. though we had never seen each
other before. she was sure we would
get on charmingy, for the simple rca-
son that both of us wanted TO 60 to
Europe and neither was willing to be
tied down TO personally conducted
tour
1t was in March that we met Within
half an hour we had decided 20 take
bicycle trip through Irland, with a
three-wcelS stay IN Paris as an ending
MY new friend was anxious 10 go TO
I Ireland because she had been studying
Gaelic. She offered 60 give me the bene-
nt Of her instruction and lend me all
hcr books on the subject. As there
were still two months before we were
TO leave, I accepted her offer.
WENT BY SLOWER LINE.
MY friend took her slgetchbook and
, Vmy camera and both OF us took our
I wheels. The cost Of our ocean voyage
was reduced as far as possible by talk
ing round-trlp ticket by one OF the
slower steamship lines We had practi-
cally all the comforts to be had on
the faster and more expensive lines.
The difference seoms TO be that where
as the expensive lines make the trip
In weeks time and less the
slower lines require 10 days or more.
. IL first set foot on foreign soil at
ueenstown. After a two-day stay here
we began our tour. first on our wheels
}. then by 1aunting car. We also trav-
a cled by train when desirable. Every
= where we were received with the great
= est friendnnoss, and In exchange FOL
our stories and descriptions OF America
the peasants old and young told us the
legends and folk tales Of their coun-
n try and sang for us quaint Gaelic
10 songs. All through our trip IN ireland
Il America was a word To ooniure with
70 We had only TO let our nationality
be known TO get what we wanted and
often more.
: TWENTY MILES FROM a RAILROA
After spending a few days In Gal
way we pushed on into Connemara
where wespent two delightful week
more than twenty miles away from IN
" nearest railroad station. Here my frie
knowledge og Gaelic was convenient
as English is almost an unknown tor
que. During these two weeks we er
ioyed delightful bathing and boating
4, the arms OF the sea, penetrating n
western coast.
- Finally tearing ourselves away frol
the blue lochs and brown bogs. "
, turned our faces eastward toward Dul
e lin. Ny friend had calculated our tim
In such a way that we arrived in III
Irish capital Just in time for the grea
national Gaelic festival After a thre
week stay, every minute of which W
both enjoyed. we left for London, whe
"a VIC had decided 10 spend the remai
:, ing three weeks of our time instead o
"a going 10 Paris.
u COST VERY MODERATE.
g. "When we landed back in our hom,
,e town / had spent all but s. OF my $500
N and had been away three days ovel
,- four months. Our passage over and re
N turn had cost $40. We both gave s.
Is In tips aboard ship and paid s. NOR
"a for the transportation OF our wheels
81 Our hotel bills for the first six weeks
l. touring came to sf5 each. and neve
once did we have other than comfor
I'd table quarters among kindly people
ts Throughout our trip we found m
m village hotels and country inns more tina
al fairly comfortable. well kept and inc,
he pensive We seldom paid more than s.
l. week for room and board / mean Z,
r., a room apiece. for only on one occaslc
~ were my friend ana / forced to occur
the same room.
le "rho roads in Ireland are 80 good tn,
~ / spent N.lo on bicycle repairs. while N
90 friend got OF with half as much Vince
rd ing is still very popular I'm the Emera
of Isle. and my friend and i attributed
r. TO the general excellence OF the road
mt Though have sinve taken several whoe
ing trips, the roads In ireland rema
ne fresh in my mind as the best all In all.
ip have ever cycled over.
4 RAILROAD FARE HIGHER.
nj I'VE found the hrst-class railroad far,
In both ireland and England somewhi
Is higher than IN this country. second-clai
On rates are about equal TO fares in u
n United States. and third-class rates al
p considerably lower. After one experien
n- first-class we decided TO try third-cla.
nd one our next trip by rail. and It prove
s. so comfortably and economical that du
as ing the remainder Of our stay we neve
e. thought Of going any other way, but
re no other country have I ever found thirC
class travel SO comfortable as It is
Ireland.
"Our railroad fares came to SIS cacl
our iaunung car trips cost another 81
"A and our carriage hire and tram ticlxe
VI cost 81. Laundry cost us $40. Fees TO Il
servants amounted to 81 each.
= I'm Dublin our hotel bill was 81 a we,
and in London where we lived in lod
or ing and took our cmeals in the most co
nd venient Place. our living expenses ainou
er cd TO SO a week, and really now that
in have had more experience. consid
on that we were extravagant. I have sin
spent several weeks in London for
nd a week and have been fully rs comic
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