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128 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
here confess that it lias hitherto been my habit to crow
over every English tourist I meet, on the matter of
travelling economically; and I had never before found
a successful competitor in this respect. During a
six-months’ tour in Italy, my whole expenses, board,
lodging, and shoes, including theatres, cafes, and all
other dissipations, besides fees to cicerone, &c., averaged
only 18s. per week; and yet I saw and did everything
that a conscientious tourist who obeys his Murray is
bound to see and to do. Last summer I made an
excursion, starting from London to Dunquerque and
Lille, through Belgium by rail; stopping at the
principal towns on the way, "doing" the hotels de ville,
the churches with their carved pulpits, &c., and the
picture-galleries; then up the cockney portion of the
Rhine, ascending the proper quantity of " fels," castles,
and lateral valleys; on from Mayence to Frankfort and
Nuremburg by rail; and after doing the artistic oddities
of that old town, proceeded by rail to Munich, where
I spent four days; then by coach to the Tegern-see,
and on foot through the Tyrol to Conegliano; by rail
to Venice; stayed four days there; and then on foot
through Lombardy, visiting some of the principal cities,
and the Lago di Garcia, Lago d’Isea, the Lake of Como,
the Splugen, and Via Mala, Gorge of Pffefers, Lake
Wallenstadt, and Zurich, and by Basle to the source
of the Moselle; down the valley of that river to
Nancy; then by rail to Paris and London. This trip
occupied six weeks. I started with 15?. in my pocket,
and brought a few shillings back; yet I visited theatres,
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