On the Roads of the World
Last year more people than ever carried their cars to the Continent. Every inch of accommodation by all routes across the sea was taken for months on end, and this year it seems likely that the rush will be even greater. As motorists we have become definitely world-conscious—if you will forgive the jargon—and people who only a few years ago regarded a drive to Brittany as the summit of their ambition, as well as an undertaking fraught with every risk possible, today make their plans to drive to Sicily and other remote places with no more doubt than they would arrange to go to the Isle of Wight. The great historical highways of Europe, stretching east, west, north and south, have become to them as familiar, at least in anticipation if not in fact, as the Bath Road, and the crossing of frontiers, the journey through strange countries, is as exciting to them as the rising of the curtain to children at their first play.
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