Synopsis

Before foreign travelling had become either quite so easy or quite so fashionable as it is now, the part of most commonly explored by English tourists was Normandy. Antiquarian inquirers, in particular, hardly went anywhere else, and we suspect that with many of them a tour in , as Mr. Petit says, still means merely a tour in Normandy. The mere holiday tourist, on the other hand, now more commonly goes somewhere elseeither to the Pyrenees or to those parts of which form the road to Switzerland and Italy.