TRAVEL NOTES
AUTUMN HOLIDAYS MANY experienced travellers prefer to take their 'holiday when the worst of the summer rush season is over, and for these the Travel Agencies and Shipping Companies have arranged tours and cruises throughout the autumn, and even the winter. The Cunard White Star Line, for instance, have a good programme right up to the winter, when the 20,000 ton `Laconia' will visit the West Indies, Mexico and Florida. There are still a few vacancies on the S.Y. Paths ' cruise which starts on September 4th for twenty-one days along the Dalmatian Coast and Grecian Isles. The cruise visits Venice, Split, Corfu, Katakolo, Olympia, and many other interesting places. This steam yacht can sail through shallows denied to larger vessels, and is within sight of land throughout practically the whole of the voyage. Alto- gether, there are thirty places to be visited, as well as several shore excursions, some by motor. Fares are from twenty-nine guineas.
The Royal Mail Line has a series of delightful cruises by the Atlantis ' : on September 3rd to Algiers, Naples, Capri, Athens, &c., twenty-one days from thirty- six guineas. Another starts on Septem- ber z5th to Tangier, Gibraltar, Cannes, Naples and -Lisbon : seventeen days from twenty-nine guineas. On October 16th
Atlantis ' sails for Casablanca, Las Palmas, Teneriffe, Santa Cruz de la Mania, Madeira, Gibraltar and Lisbon : sixteen days from twenty-seven guineas. Another interesting cruise will be made by a motor ship of 36,000 tons to Italy, Corsica, Tunis, Tripoli and Malta. This ship leaves on October z3rd. Fares for the eleven days, including rail, from London to Genoa and return are from nineteen guineas. A twenty-two days' cruise visiting Florence, Rome, Naples, Capri and Venice, by the same ship, starts on September 18th. Par- ticulars of this and several other cruises may be obtained from C.I.T. (England) Ltd., 77 Regent Street, London, W. r.
It is now again possible to obtain accom- modation in the comfortable steamers of the Finland Line, which have been booked up for several months. Many people think that autumn is the best time to visit Finland, and the changing colours of the forests are cer- tainly very fine during this season. A very restful holiday can be made near one of the great lakes, when the hotels and pensions are no longer crowded.' The Finnish Travel Bureau offers an eleven-day cruise to Helsingfors, with a stop at Copenhagen, and two nights at a first-class hotel at Helsingfors. The cost of this cruise is Lit. A longer trip of eighteen days, which in- cludes, in addition to the two nights at Helsingfors, seven days at Tiuruniemi, near the famous rapids of Imatra, is centred in one of the most beautiful districts of East Fin- land. The centre is on the shores of Lake Saimaa, in a forest of silver birches and pines.
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