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| Gamle Norge, 1879 |
Purposely
avoiding spending too much time in the big cities he travelled through the
countryside, visiting remote villages, glaciers, went reindeer hunting and
often slept beneath the stars.
My
copy was printed in 1879, and was a lucky find in an old bookstore in Tønsberg.
The
book is written in a charming and engaging manner, you feel the excitement of
the traveller as he describes the peasants, their traditions, dwellings, and
simple way of life.
Much has changed in Norway, but one thing that will never
change is the spirit of the traveller, and these lamentations written in the
Victoria era still ring true today.
“In
these days of express trains, fish torpedoes going twenty knots an hour,
telegrams, and instantaneous photographs, people will not give sufficient time
to do anything with steady enjoyment. Skurry and scuttle are too prominent by far”
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“..Still
we made the best of it, and came to the conclusion that one of the charms of
travel is the variety of situation; and then, after all, with pleasant companions,
anything short of bad accidents is only the kind of thing which the true
traveller must expect, and almost seeks.”
R.T.Pritchett
Original blog post from 2012: http://roland-designs.blogspot.no/2012/10/gamle-norge.html
