ABSTRACT

We left our chaises at Pont Beauvoisin, and came here post on horseback in about 10 hours after the most tiresome journey I have ever yet had, both from the badness of the roads and the places we lay at…

Roads The bulk of tourist travel was by road, and a major difference between eighteenth-century and modern comment on European travel was the stress in the former on road conditions. A wealth of information about these can be found both in tourist accounts and in those of other travellers, particularly diplomats. A reiterated theme was the dependence of road conditions on the weather.