The Honeymoon and After

Honeymoon Arrangements | England | Scotland | Ireland | The Honeymoon Abroad | Switzerland | France | Holland | Belgium | Italy | Spain | Denmark | Norway | Sweden | Traveling by Air | Clothing and Luggage for the Air Travel | An Ocean Cruise | Clothing and Luggage for Sea Travel | After the Honeymoon

The location and duration of the honeymoon depend upon the bridegroom's finances, his business responsibilities, and the personal preferences of his bride and himself. The majority of newly-married couples spend a week or a fortnight on their honeymoon.

Accommodation should be booked up well in advance. On the whole, it is best to have a short honeymoon rather than a long one. The couple may easily become bored on a long honeymoon, and the bride may become impatient to settle in her new home.

Every effort should be made to avoid boredom on what should be the most enjoyable holiday of the bridal couple's lives. To this end they should see that every moment is occupied. They should avoid solitude at all costs, and should arrange their itinerary accordingly.

The honeymoon is not the occasion to stint either wearing apparel or luggage, though the amount of the articles required will necessarily depend upon the locale chosen. For a walking tour of Wales, different clothes would be needed from those required by a bridal couple spending their honey­moon in the bridal suite of the Dorchester.

Whatever the circumstances, the bridal couple should try to look their best.

Expenses can very easily mount far above calculations, so the honeymoon couple should prepare a careful budget in advance, and adhere to it. The early days of marriage are very expensive indeed, and it would be a pity to have to go without essential articles in the home, because too much money was spent on the honeymoon. Far better for the bride to cancel or at least postpone her honeymoon than to spoil or delay the setting up of her new home.

HONEYMOON ARRANGEMENTS

If the honeymoon is to be spent in England or Wales, there are numerous possibilities in the way of suitable locali­ties. Among the districts suitable for a honeymoon are:

England

The Cotswolds                          The Norfolk Broads
Shakespeare's Country Yorkshire Moors
The Vale of Evesham                Isle of Wight
The New Forest                       Wales
The Peak District                      The Wye Valley
Devon and Cornwall                 Welsh Highlands
The Lake District                      North Wales

All the holiday resorts are popular, together with the hydros—Harrogate, Malvern and Tunbridge Wells. In Wales, Aberystwyth and Llandudno are favourite centres.

Scotland

Scotland has many attractions for the honeymoon couple. Apart from the cities and seaside resorts it offers islands, lakes, rivers, the Highlands and mountains. The Trossachs are popular.

Glasgow is the largest city. It is spaciously laid out. The cathedral of St. Mungo (patron saint and founder of the city in the sixth century) was dedicated in 1179. The municipal offices and the Royal Exchange are the principal buildings. The University was founded in 1450, and is housed in buildings designed by Sir Gilbert Scott. Other buildings include the Stock Exchange, Observatory, and many museums, galleries and theatres.

Edinburgh—the "Athens of the North "—is the capital and the chief seat of law and education. It has a University, founded in 1583, a castle (containing St. Margaret's chapel, the oldest building in Scotland), and a Royal Palace built in the fifteenth century. The old Scottish Parliament House, begun in 1632, is now used by the Law Courts. Edinburgh has two of the finest thoroughfares in Europe—Princes Street and the Royal Mile.

St. Andrews has many interesting ruins, including a twelfth-century priory, a cathedral and a castle or bishop's palace, built in the thirteenth century. Its University dates from 1411. St. Andrews is a popular holiday resort. It is the headquarters of golf, being the home of the Royal and Ancient Club, founded in 1754.

Fort William, John o' Groats and the Scottish Lakes are suitable centres.
Aberdeen, the fourth city of Scotland, is built of grey granite, and has a University and many fine public buildings. Outstanding are the municipal offices and Marischal college. The chief thoroughfare, Union Street, is over a mile long. Old Aberdeen, on the Don, is the site of a cathedral church, and of King's College, founded in 1494.

Ireland

Ireland is a land of rivers, bays, moors and mountains.

Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland. It is a pleasant city with fine streets and handsome buildings. The principal buildings are the City Hall, St. Anne's Protestant Cathedral, Queen's University, the Museum, Art Gallery, Castle, Grand Opera House, Ulster Hall, and new Parliament House at Stormont.

Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland, has a famous University (Trinity College), three Cathedrals—two Protes­tant and one Catholic—and a seventeenth-century Castle. In Phoenix Park there is a famous public pleasure ground. Other noteworthy buildings are: the City Hall, the Four Courts, the Art Gallery and Museum, and the Parliament House.

Popular holiday resorts in Ireland are: Bangor, Bundoran, Greenore, Londonderry, Portrush, Rostravor, Killarney and Cork.

Places to visit: Giant's Causeway, Glendalough, Park-nasilla and Glengariff.

For full particulars of all holiday localities in the British Isles, suitable for a honeymoon, the appropriate Ward Lock Holiday Guide should be consulted.

THE HONEYMOON ABROAD

For the honeymoon abroad, the variety of choice is end­less. A few suggestions are given below, but it is obviously impossible to cover all the possibilities.

Switzerland

Switzerland is the tourist's paradise: tourism is its fourth biggest business. The beauty of its scenery has made it the recreation ground of Europe. Among the places that should be seen are—the Jungfrau and Interlaken, Lake Constance, the Bernese Oberland, Lucerne, the Jura, and, most important of all, Zermatt.

Zurich is the largest city, situated at the foot of the Lake of Zurich. It has a Romanesque cathedral and a University.

Berne, the capital, is highly picturesque. It is on the Aar, and commands a magnificent view of the Bernese Alps. It is famous for its bear-pit.
Geneva is quaint and colourful. It is placed at the south­west end of the Lake of Geneva, at the exit of the Rhone. Among its fine buildings are the Cathedral of St. Peter (1124 A.D.), and the Academy founded by Calvin.

Lucerne, on Lake Lucerne, is the main tourist centre. Outside its walls is the famous Lion of Lucerne, cut out of the solid rock.

France

Paris—the capital of Europe—offers Notre Dame, the great thirteenth-century Gothic Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, the Sorbonne University, the Arc de Triomphe, the Conciergerie and Palace of Justice, Saint Chapelle, Pantheon, Latin Quarter, Montparnasse, Invalides, the Tuileries, the Madeleine, and the Louvre—the most famous art gallery in the world.

On the outskirts of Paris are: Fontainebleau, with Napoleon's Palace, and the forest; Versailles, Court of Louis XTV, gardens and chateau;   Saint Cloud, the park; Saint-Denis, tombs of the Kings of France; Compiegne, 1918 Armistice; Rheims Cathedral.

Nice - the capital of the Riviera - has a race track, casino, opera house and nightclubs. It is charmingly situated near the Italian border, and is a favourite winter resort. It contains the Old Town, the Chapel of the Black Penitents and the Lesage staircase.

Biarritz, in the Bay of Biscay, and Saint-Jean-de-Luz, are favourite holiday resorts. The latter, at the mouth of the Nivelle, has an old Basque church, a chateau and a hydro-therapic establishment.

Holland

Amsterdam, situated at the mouth of the Amsel, on the Zuyder Zee, is a strange mixture of old and new. It rests on ninety islands connected by three hundred bridges. Among its attractions are: the State Museum, Rembrandt's House, the Royal Palace, House of the Sculptured Heads.

The Hague, handsomely laid out with stately buildings and beautiful canals, is the seat of government. It contains the Peace Palace—the meeting place of the Permanent Court of International Justice, Royal Palace and Palace in the Wood. It also has a fine picture-gallery, a Royal Library, and a fourteenth-century Gothic church. Adjoining the Hague, and connected with it by tramway is Scheveningen, a fashion­able holiday resort.

Haarlem, on the Spaarne, four miles from the sea, has the Frans Hals Museum, St. Bavo Cathedral, and adjoins the seaside resort of Zandvoort. Haarlem's fine fifteenth-century church contains a famous organ with eight thousand pipes.

Leyden, eighteen miles from Haarlem, contains the University, founded in 1575, a sixteenth-century town hall, the Gemeenlandshuis (1596), weigh house and cloth-hall.

Marken and Volendam should be visited.

Belgium

Brussels—a miniature Paris—is the capital of Belgium. It has a King's Palace, Courts of Justice, University, Art Schools and Waterloo Battlefield. The old town is pictur­esque, though narrow and crooked: the new town is among the finest in Europe.

Antwerp, on the river Scheldt, is the chief seaport of Belgium. It has a beautiful Gothic cathedral containing Rubens' " Descent from the Cross " and " Elevation of the Cross ", and its museum contains the works of Rembrandt, Hals, Steen and Van Eyck.

Ostend offers wonderful swimming on the beach. It has a parade three miles long, a casino, theatres and a racecourse, and has long been a favourite of British tourists.

Italy

Rome has the Coliseum, the baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon, the Arch of Titus, the Basilica of Constantine, the Aurelian Wall surrounding the city, the Catacombs, the Forum, the Cappuccini Chapel, the Borghese Art Galleries, the Palazzo Venezia. In the Vatican City are the Church of St. Peter, the Apostolic Palace and the City Governor's Palace.

Milan is the industrial centre of the country. It has a magnificent Gothic cathedral of white marble. Como, Lugano and the Italian Lakes are nearby.

Siena, Florence and Venice in the north, and Capri and Sorrento in the south should be visited.

Florence has many art galleries, and a fine thirteenth-century cathedral. Venice is situated at the head of the Adriatic, and is built on piles. All the main thoroughfares are canals. It contains the Doge's Palace, St. Mark's Basilica, the Rialto bridge and many palaces skirting the Grand Canal.

Spain

Madrid, the capital, is situated on a plateau in New Castile. It has a fine open space—the Prado, three miles long, the former Royal Palace, University, picture gallery, opera house and bull-ring.

Barcelona is the largest city in Spain. It is situated on the Mediterranean coast, a hundred miles from the Pyrenees. It has a University and many churches and theatres.

Valencia, near the mouth of the Guadalaviar, contains a large Gothic cathedral, a picture gallery and a University.

Seville has one of the finest Gothic cathedrals in Europe, also a Moorish Royal Palace, a Roman Aqueduct, a museum, University and bull-ring.
Toledo, the most typical Spanish city, has the Alcazar and San Servando Castle.

Segaria has a magnificent Roman Aqueduct. It is a typical Castilian city.
Other tourist centres are: Tarragona, Santander, Corunna, Cordoba, Avila, Salamanca, San Sebastian and Valladolid.

Denmark

Denmark consists of Jutland, the northern part of Sleswig, and five hundred islands—a fifth of them inhabited—in the Baltic sea. Zealand and Funen are the two most important, followed by Bornholm, off the south-east coast of Sweden.

Copenhagen is the capital. It is built partly on the island of Zeeland and partly on the island of Amager. Its famous " Tivoli" is an amusement park in the heart of the city. Twenty-five miles north of Copenhagen is Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, the site of scenes in Hamlet, The play is sometimes performed there in English. Centre of the city is the Kongens Nytorv, with the Academy of Arts in the Charlottenburg Palace, the Royal Theatre, Foreign Office, etc.

Esbjerg, in Jutland, is the port at which travellers usually arrive. Twenty miles south of Esbjerg is Ribe, a medieval town with a famous cathedral. Sonderborg, a holiday resort, is on the island of Als.

Aarhus, the capital of Jutland, is Denmark's second biggest city. It has an open-air museum—" Den Gamle By "—The Old Town, a reconstruction of a sixteenth-century Danish town, also a Gothic cathedral and a University. Nearby are the Silkeborg Lakes, offering excellent fishing, sailing and bathing facilities.
Odense, the third largest city, is situated on the island of Funen, and connected by canal with Odense fjord four miles away. King Canute was buried in its fine old cathedral, founded in 1086. Hans Andersen was born there.

Bornholm is worth a visit. Four of Denmark's seven round churches are situated on the island. The chief town is Ronne.

Norway

Norway is a land of mountains, fjords and lakes.

Oslo, the capital, is modern and well-planned. It has the Frogner Park, the Parliament House, University Hall; and Theatre and Royal Palace. The Akers church was founded in the eleventh century. Until 1925 Oslo was known as Christiania. It is situated on Oslo fjord, on the south-east coast.

Bergen, the old capital and second largest city, is situated on a fjord of the same name, which, owing to the Gulf Stream, never freezes. It is the main centre of the tourist traffic. The town is built on a slope, and its wooden houses are highly picturesque. It has a fish market, the Bryggen with its old houses and the funicular journey up to Floyf jellet.

Trondheim, like Bergen, a former capital, is 250 miles north of Oslo. It possesses a fine thirteenth-century cathedral where the kings of Norway are crowned.

Lillehammer is a resort situated on the hillside at the entrance to the Gulbrandsdal. This valley contains the Sandvig Open-air Museum, with furnished houses illustrating the development of life in the valley over a thousand years.

At North Cape the Midnight Sun may be seen from the second week in May until the last week in July.

Sweden

Like Norway, Sweden is a land of mountains, lakes and forests.    It is the fourth largest country in Europe.

Stockholm, the capital, stands partly on the mainland and partly on nine islands connected by bridges and boats. It has many museums and public buildings.

It is a beautiful city. Gamla Staden contains the market place, the 1754 Royal Palace, the church dedicated to St. Nicholas in 1264 and the new Town Hall—one of the finest examples of modern architecture. Skansen Park contains ancient farm houses and a zoo. The Houses of Parliament and Law Courts are on Knight's Island. The Academy of Science, Academy of Fine Arts, the Bank of Sweden, the Hop Garden and the National Museum are in Norrmaln, the best quarter of the city. The Caroline Medical Institute, founded in 1815, is also in Sweden.

'CAt Uppsala, the former capital, there is a famous University founded in 1477 and a fine cathedral, begun in 1287—burial place of the Swedish kings and queens. The town is rich in historical associations.

Gothenburg is a modern town, intersected by several canals.It has one of the finest botanical gardens in Europe.

Malmo, a seaport, is the third largest town in Sweden, and is situated opposite Copenhagen, seventeen miles away.

TRAVELLING BY AIR

The most dangerous part of an air trip is taking off. The safety belts should be fastened right away. Smoking is forbidden when taking off, landing, and when on the ground. Some airlines forbid all smoking.
Landing is always more difficult than taking off. Safety belts should be fastened promptly, as soon as die warning is given.

CLOTHING FOR AIR TRAVEL

A good variety of clothes should be taken by the honey­moon couple who are travelling by air. Tight fitting clothes or shoes should be avoided. A warm coat in winter and a light coat in summer should be carried. Tropical clothes should be taken when flying from temperate to tropical climates.

The amount of clothing that may be taken by air is limited, but the following lists indicate the type of clothes needed:

Men

Tweed suit                                         8 shirts
Tropical suit                                       12 collars
Dinner suit                                         8 ties
Lightweight suit                                  Braces
Lightweight flannel trousers              8 pairs socks
Walking shoes                                   12 handkerchiefs
Brogues                                             3 lightweight pyjamas
Bathing Trunks                                   Pair suspenders
Beach Sandals                                  Pullover
3 pairs of pants                                  Scarf
3 vests                                               Dressing gown

Women

3 pairs shoes:   sports,                       Tweed suit
promenade, walking                          Flannel suit
Evening shoes                                   2 afternoon dresses
2 slips and knickers                           Evening dress
2 silk and wool vests                         1 Dinner dress
and knickers                                      4 Washing frocks

1. brassieres                                       Crepe-de-chine blouse
2. nightdresses                                    Light hat
   Dressing gown                                 2 pairs gloves

6 pairs stockings                               12 handkerchiefs
Bathing dress                                    1 evening bag
2 jumpers

LUGGAGE FOR AIR TRAVEL

Two 28-inch and two 22-inch suitcases should be carried. The larger cases should contain only articles needed at the destination. These will be labelled " Not required on Voyage ", and will not ordinarily be accessible until the end of the journey. The smaller cases should contain articles needed by the honeymoon couple during the journey: changes of clothing, toilet articles, night clothes, clean linen and underclothes. On a long journey, toothbrushes, face cloths, combs, cosmetics, etc., should be included. All baggage should be locked.

AN OCEAN CRUISE

The larger shipping companies conduct cruises to most of the sea-board places that a honeymoon couple might wish to visit—the Mediterranean, Scandinavia, Far East and Pacific, and so on. Particulars of current cruises may be obtained from their head offices, usually in London, or their branch offices, to be found mostly in Liverpool and Glasgow.

If possible, an outside cabin should be secured—i.e., one with a porthole looking out to sea. An inner cabin is venti­lated only through the corridor (although forced draught has improved ventilation of inside cabins.) The best position to occupy in the ship is half-way between bow and stern.

The steward or stewardess should be tipped well at the end of the cruise, and the table steward should be tipped after the first meal, with the promise of a good reward at the end of the voyage.

Clothing

There is no limit to the amount of clothing that the honeymoon couple may take with them on an ocean cruise. They should, however, avoid burdening themselves with non-essential articles of clothing, and at the same time make sure that they have a sufficiency of the type of clothes that their particular cruise will demand. For example, if going on a cruise in Scandinavia in winter, plenty of warm clothes should be taken, while the Mediterranean would require lightweight clothes, and Africa, tropical clothes.

Strong and comfortable boots and shoes should be taken. Sun glasses are necessary both in the Mediterranean and northern countries.

Luggage

Unless labelled "Wanted On Voyage" or "Cabin", luggage is confined to the hold of the ship. Such luggage should be labelled "Not Wanted On Voyage". Any articles likely to be required en voyage should be packed in the "Cabin" cases. Steamship companies usually have special rules regarding the storage of trunks, and information regarding this should be obtained from the shipping office when booking the passage.

AFTER THE HONEYMOON

Formal etiquette requires that, following the honeymoon, the bride should send printed "At Home" cards to her friends and neighbours. These are worded as follows:
Mrs. John Martin

AT HOME Tuesday, June 3.
R.S.V.P.                                                                4 p.m. Ban bury House,
Basinghatch.

At the "At Home", bridal cake may be served. A selection of the wedding presents is usually displayed. The bride does not wear her wedding dress. She may only wear it as an evening gown, when it must be altered and the train removed.

An "At Home" should be held in the middle of the week, between 4 and 5 p.m.

Refreshments are of a simple kind—tea, coffee, iced drinks, with cakes and cigarettes; or they can be cocktails, which should be mixed beforehand, poured into glasses and handed about on trays. If cocktails are served, it is usual not to provide cakes, but very small things such as little squares of pastry, piled with shrimps or cheese, or any such appetizing tastes as can be obtained from a judicious mixture of sardines, nut butter, crab, anchovy, olives and the hundred and one different ideas which may occur. Small hot sausages, served on tiny sticks, and potato crisps are a popular addition.

It is customary nowadays to ignore the fact that a couple are newly married, and to treat them as though they have moved to a new district.

In this case, neighbours call at their convenience, and their calls are returned in the usual way.

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