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own especial bottle of resinous ale. At Bergen we had
neither wine nor ale.
Thus it will be seen that our hotel expenses in the cities
-—excluding wine — amounted to about 2 dollars, or nine
shillings each per day. Assuming that we were supplied
on wholesale terms, in consideration of the magnitude of
our party, I may say that an average of half-a-guinea per
day will cover ordinary expenses at such hotels, the most
expensive in Norway. The charges for wine are about the
same as those of the steam-packet wine carte, which 1
have copied in full detail, page 43,
Next to these, I may take the country stations which
have developed into hotels; i.e. where the proprietor,
although, perhaps, still a farmer, has invested a
considerable amount of capital in hotel appliances, employs
regular servants to attend upon guests, and regards the
whole as a regular matter of business, whereby he shall
obtain a fair return for interest and risk of capital, and labour
of superintendence. There are many of these on the fjords
at the mouths of the greater branching valleys; such as
Aak hotel, Faleidet, Itonnei, Lierdalsoren, &c., &c. Our
expenses at Aak, Faleidet, and Sande, which I may quote
as the examples of those at which we halted, are stated
in the course of the diary, but I may here add generally,
that the ordinary charge at these houses for visitors “ en
pension,” i.e. who stay for several days, is 6 marks per day
—rather less than six shillings—exclusive of the wine and
the very small gratuity commonly given to the “ pigge.”
Flying visitors pay a little more, at the rate of about
14 dollar, 6s. 9d. per day.
5Ir. Bennett estimates the average expenses for board
and lodging at country stations (exclusive of wine and
beer) at one dollar per day. This is, I think, about
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