Rushing Europe on Wheels.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, 3 December 1887, Page 7

Rushing Europe on Wheels.

Ax Ameiican and his wife, writes a correspondent, Mr and Mrs Harold K. Lewis, of Philadelphia, on a tandem tricycle, have since Jubilee Day travelled all over the South of England ; and then, from Dieppe, ridden to (leneva, by way ot Rouen, Paris, and Dijon, thence over the St. Gethard to Milan, by way of the lake>> ; back over the Splugen, by easy stages thiough Switzerland, clow n the Rhine from its source to the sea ; around Holland, only ending their trip of 2,200 miles in BiusseK becaii^e they found themselves riding, not on the rubbei , but on the bteel rims of their wheels, the tires being entirely worn out. Ameiicans are usually proverbial for "rushing 1 Europe," but if English cyclists vveie to follow the example of Mr and Mrs Lewis, thoroughly study the languages of countries through which they are going, and endeavour to lists the life of the people as much as they can, they would come back, uot with a stock of the traveller's petty grievances and grumblings, but wioh the memory of " one summer" delightfully .spent and the knowledge that they have made one of the most interesting rides on record. Trips like the.se, which unfortunately are almor t always made by foreigners, do more than anything else to increase the hopes and lessen the fears for the future of cycling 1