Perhaps the success of the cycle has made walking tours completely out of date. A few years ago it was no uncommon thing for two friends to decide upon Nowadays they will arrange to And here a very important element in travelling and comfort comes in. The choice of a companion is a matter of vital importance. Of course, if you are married you can have no possible pleasanter traveller than your better seven-eighths. This is manifest for many reasons-perhaps the principal being that any other choice would be

my friend used to say,

I would reply, hating the sea like poison, and fearful of that possibly dreadful passage from Newhaven.

A few hours later I would get a telegram, saying that my friend had decided that we should go via and . I would joyfully respond,

my fellow traveller would suggest when we had got to Amiens.

I would respond meekly.

Then when we arrived at the terminus I would find that our luggage had been deposited in one of the omnibuses belonging to the Grand Hotel.

my friend would explain;

I used to acquiesce. Then my companion would draw up a route. We were to go to Bale, Lausanne, Berne, Interlaken, Lucerne, and come back express from Geneva. I would be delighted. However, in spite of the expression of satisfaction I was not in the least surprised when, at the end of our trip, I found that we had avoided Switzerland, and had travelled exclusively on the Rhine and in Holland.

The golden rule for getting on with a travelling companion is to submit your will to his. Let him have his own way. There cannot be two people so retire in his favour.

Nowadays it is rather fashionable to be poor, so there is no disgrace in travelling in preference to I fancy that the French have a proverb that the is only patronised by millionaires, English, and fools. That occasionally it is necessary to take the highest-priced ticket goes without saying. For instance, the administration at times have a custom of only having first class carriages