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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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n side.St. Malos shops and streets are quaintand interesting. The latter are narrowand filled with people, the walls echoingwith the clatter of sabots or wooden shoesof the peasants. In the evening the plazanear the Porte St. Vincent was gay withthe music-loving populace who filled thesidewalks and a large portion of the pave-ment, sitting at the little round tables andlistening to the female orchestras of therival cafes. The female orchestras are aninstitution of France. We found them inalmost every town and their playing wasexceptionally good. We patronized sev-eral of the cafes and found them generallymost satisfactory. Here, as in almost all *The second of a series of papers describing an automobile trip through Normandy, Brittany, Scotland,Ireland, England and Wales. A forthcoming paper will be devoted to practical notes and suggestions forthe benefit of those who are planning a first motor trip abroad. Copyrighted, 1908, by The Outing Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 515
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An Intimate Excursion 5*7 provincial towns in France, the waitersserve your drinks in glasses set uponsaucers upon which, burned in under theglazing, is the price you are to pay thewaiter. This saves all disputes and asthe price named on the saucers is chargedup against the waiter when he receivesthem it enables the proprietor to get allthat is coming to him. A trip along the coast from Honfleur toSt. Malo is alone worth the trip to Europe.Those automobilists who think they areseeing Normandy and Brittany when theyrush, as many of them do, from Paristhrough Evreux, Lisieux and Caen to St.Malo and its sister resort, Dinard, are doingthe country like many of our Americantourists see Europe, on the hop, skip andjump; too busy and too hurried to enjoythe really delightful things which go tomake the trip most enjoyable. Normandy and Brittany towns have aquiet sweetness in which the strident callof commerce and the bustle and noise of ourAmerican towns are strangers. Wherevercommercial acti

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