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APPENDIX I.
TRAVELLING EXPENSES IN NORWAY.
In ‘Through Norway with a Knapsack’ I have given the
full details of all my expenses. This was necessary there,
as the sum total would otherwise have been quite
unintelligible. I need scarcely state that, in the course of the
journey described in this volume, we had no such items
as supper, bed, and breakfast, for twopence farthing; and
it may be that, even had I travelled alone and on foot,
this curious experience would not have been repeated.
The very great development of tourist traffic throughout
Norway during the last twenty years has, of course,
effected considerable innovations upon the old primitive
simplicity of tourists’ accommodation.
On all the leading highways the stations have lost more
or less of their old farmhouse character. The traveller
does not now share the supper of the bonder and his
housemen in the heavy timbered smoke-stained kitchen, but is
provided with special apartments built on purpose for his
accommodation, and fitted up as luxuriously as the ideas
and means of their peasant proprietors admit.
The tourist who would now repeat my experiences of
1856 must step quite aside from the beaten tracks. By
doing so, he may still find the primitive Norwegian habits
unaltered, and enjoy magnificent scenery that is even now
almost unexplored. This is especially the case in the
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