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the head of the Jostedal * was my chief incentive
to this excursion, in which the ladies declined to
join. They, however, visited a saeter nearer to
Sande, and were very much interested with the
saeter economy. I passed two saeter pasturages
August 18th.—We bid farewell to our kind
attentive host and his equally attentive assistants,
and proceed to Yadheim, one of the ports of the
Sognefjord, just two hours’ drive from Sande.
Our bill at Sande for all the luxuries and very
much laundry amounted to $34, or 81., including
the pigge ; seven people, four days. This is rather
less than 65. per day for each.
This charge of six marks per day (exclusive of
wine, of course) appears to be the common rate at
the best Norwegian country stations; those that,
like Aak, Faleidet, Sande, &c., have developed
into hotels.
As wine-drinking was, with all our seven, a
matter of ceremony rather than habit, we drank no
wine when thus by ourselves. 1 mention this, in
reference to the foolish, the very reprehensible
slavishness, which so often impels Englishmen to
order wine at hotels merely to exhibit their own
* See ‘ Through Norway with a Knapsack,’ chaps, xi. and xii.
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