ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses claims by employers that their servants are unappreciative of foreign experiences by considering what servants themselves write about their travels, while considering in more detail what the expectations of the British servant abroad were and to what extent they engaged with the ‘other’. It focuses on the Home Tour, indicates some of the variety of difference encountered and noted by servant travellers on their journeys in Britain. Thomas Addison’s tour of France and Italy and James Thoburn’s extended excursion to Greece, Turkey, and North Africa also provide rich material for analysis. Addison’s journal makes extensive reference to numerical facts about particular sights. La Machine de Marly had been completed in 1684 and was still functioning in 1817; thus, by the time of Farrington and Addison’s travels, it had become an established sight for tourists visiting Paris. Addison’s emphasis on the engineering of the machine shows his interests in civil engineering and landscape.
