Simply Because A Boarding House In France Or Italy Is
Known As A Pension Doesn't Keep It From Being A
Boarding house
- and a pretty average bad one, as I have been informed by misguided
Americans who tried living at
A pension, and afterwards put in a
good deal of their spare time regretting it.
Altogether, looking back on my own experiences, I can at this time
of writing think of but two common commodities which, when grade
is taken into the equation, are found to be radically cheaper in
Europe than in America - these two things being taxicabs and counts.
For their cleanliness and smartness of aspect, and their reasonableness
of meter-fare, taxicabs all over Europe are a constant joy to the
traveling American. And, though in the United States counts are
so costly that only the marriageable daughters of the very wealthy
may afford to buy them - and even then, as the count calendars
attest, have the utmost difficulty in keeping them after they are
bought - in Continental Europe anywhere one may for a moderate price
hire a true-born count to do almost any small job, from guiding
one through an art gallery to waiting on one at the table. Counts
make indifferent guides, but are middling fair waiters.
Outside of the counts and the taxicabs, and the food in Germany,
I found in all Europe just one real overpowering bargain - and that
was in Naples, where, as a general thing, bargains are not what
they seem.
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