Yet what drove me to Scotland was not so much
enthusiasm for that admirable country as Mr. Butler, who seemed to make it impossible to go to foreign parts for more than ten days, or at the most a fortnight. BILL just after I had decided that, I met someone who had just &le a holiday at my favourite hotel at my favourite resort in Switzerland on the regulation allow- ance. He has now explained in more detail how he did it. Total allowance for self, wife and car (both the latter desirable) is £65. He spent 14 days in Switzerland at 16 francs, which with service and taxes, comes to £42. Petrol £8. Excursions of one kind and another £2 each—a figure which in recent years I have found totally inadequate; the funicular to Miirren alone last year cost over £1 for two persons. All this • left 15s. a day between the two for casual spending; this again seems to me calculated to produce that cramped feeling. A night each way ,was spent with friends in Paris; not everyone is fortunate enough to possess convenient friends in Paris. Still. it is useful to be shown what can be done and how to do it.
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