http://www.travelnewsblog.org Travel news, stories and tips for backpackers Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:24:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once considered rather lowly, backpacking is fast becoming an accepted activity. Backpacking has taken to meaning a certain type of low budget holiday, taken internationally. Other factors commonly associated with backpacking have been the backpacker’s emphasis on the use of public transport and tendency to stay in youth hostels rather ... http://www.travelnewsblog.org/backpacking-to-freedom/ post-coach, set high upon springs, which is the most absurd kind of carriage for the roads of this country that could be devised We travelled in a vehicle built after the fashion of the English post-coach, set high upon springs, which is the most absurd kind of carriage for the roads of this country ... http://www.travelnewsblog.org/we-travelled-in-a-vehicle-built-after-the-fashion-of-the-english/ 'It has met with no success at all,' he answered. 'The worst thing that the government could do for these people is to give them every thing as it has done, and leave them under no necessity to provide for themselves. They chop over a little land, an acre or two to a ... http://www.travelnewsblog.org/it-has-met-with-no-success-at-all-he-answered/ building, one of the largest of its kind in the world In the evening was a masked ball in the Tacon Theatre, a spacious building, one of the largest of its kind in the world. The pit, floored over, with the whole depth of the stage open to the back wall of the edifice, ... http://www.travelnewsblog.org/in-the-evening-was-a-masked-ball-in-the-tacon-theatre-a-spacious/ to Broek I went accordingly Every body visits Broek, near Amsterdam, the pride of Dutch villages, and to Broek I went accordingly. It stands like the rest, among dykes and canals, but consists altogether of the habitations of persons in comfortable circumstances, and is remarkable, as you know, for its scrupulous cleanliness. The common streets ... http://www.travelnewsblog.org/every-body-visits-broek-near-amsterdam-the-pride-of-dutch-villages-and/ handling the clumsy masses of iron which bear the name of bloom We found a man near where we stood, begrimed by the soot of the furnaces, handling the clumsy masses of iron which bear the name of bloom. The rolling mill, he said, belonged to Rodenbough, Stewart & Co., who had very extensive ... http://www.travelnewsblog.org/we-found-a-man-near-where-we-stood-begrimed-by-the-soot-of-the-furnaces/ when they have seen their allotted number of vaudevilles and swallowed their destined allowance of weak wine and bottled small-beer, they are swept off to the cemetery of Montmartre, or of Pre la Chaise, or some other of the great burial-places which lie just without the city. I went to visit ... http://www.travelnewsblog.org/when-they-have-seen-their-allotted-number-of-vaudevilles-and-swallowed-their-destined-allowance-of/ swarming was peaceable I said that the demeanor of all the patients with whom the Asylum was swarming was peaceable. There was one exception. On entering one of the wards, a girl of an earnest and determined aspect, as soon as she saw Dr. Conolly began to scream violently, and sprang towards him, thrusting ... http://www.travelnewsblog.org/i-said-that-the-demeanor-of-all-the-patients-with-whom-the-asylum-was/ At half-past seven the next morning we were on our way to the Sault Ste. Marie, in the little steamer General Scott. The wind was blowing fresh, and a score of persons who had intended to visit the Sault were withheld by the fear of seasickness, so that half a dozen of us ... http://www.travelnewsblog.org/at-half-past-seven-the-next-morning-we-were-on-our-way-to-the-sault-ste/ village of the Indians, consisting of log-cabins and round wigwams, on a shrubby level, reserved to them by the government Close to the rapids, with birchen-canoes moored in little inlets, is a village of the Indians, consisting of log-cabins and round wigwams, on a shrubby level, reserved to them by the government. The morning ... http://www.travelnewsblog.org/close-to-the-rapids-with-birchen-canoes-moored-in-little-inlets-is-a/