FUN ON TOUR
FOREIGN SHOPPING hiking in bavaria FOOD IN YOUTH HOSTELS “To have l'un in a foreign* country is to go shopping.” says Aliss Joan Deare, in Avriting of a hiking holiday trip in B'avarian Germany, to her parents, Air. and Mrs' R. J. Deare, of Noav Plymouth. The tour Avas undertaken through the medium of the National Students of Germany. At Frankfurt the. party met their guides, Erika and George, and had to do some shopping to complete their rucksack equipment. “Shopping Avas great fun,” said Aliss Deare. “Poor Erika Avas dragged miles for our various needs, and she Avas for ever chasing someone avlio had become enthralled with the shops. Clothing and boots Avere ..very reasonable and all articles were apparently made for service. We had been very fortunate in buying 25 11. M. (Reich-' marks) for 22s 6d, whereas the usual rate of exchange is 12 R.AI. for £l. Just lioav this Avas possible I’m not sure, unless it was because avo wore Students participating in a tour arranged by German students. ’The tour Avas also paid for at the same reduction.” Became Lost. *> In one big emporium, Miss Deare and another girl became avcll and truly lost and it Avas not . until they found the offices of an AmericanHamburg shipping company that they found someone to Avlioni they could explain their predicament and be directed back to their hotel. Food Avas not exactly scarce iu Germany, said Al.iss Deare, but the general menus at the- hostels in that part of the country Avere of a frugal nature and she Avan derod how the people of the country kept so fit. She found them physically a fine race of people, full of energy, well built-, and with beautiful complexions. Aleals consisted of black bread rolls and coffee or. chocolate for breakfast. “We alAA’ays had plenty of butter and jam.” said Aliss Deare, “but the youths eating their meals at the same hostels did not fare nearly so avcll .;.. Lettuce Avas plentiful and always soaked in vinegar and oil. Onccv avc had carrots and tAvice beans. Meat was very good, but it was always veal Food Avas never stinted on our, trip and -there would be as much left alter a meal as avc bad eaten. SAveets were never served. “The beds fit the hostels are Avorth describing,” says Aliss Deare. “I think the frame must have been built to raise the head or upper portion of tli'e body for seA’eral inches. In one hotel AA’e had a pilloAV but in many oi the youth hostels we just had a mattress and it Ava s sometimes hard and awkAvard. A blanket "'as encased in a bag madef from sheeting and a very fat, soft and light kind of oiderdoAvn also encased in a sheeting' bag We made our own beds, or rather folded the blankets, and every- hostel seemed to have a different method of folding them.”
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 164, 29 March 1939, Page 3
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490FUN ON TOUR Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 164, 29 March 1939, Page 3
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