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Battalion/Page 12
May 26,1982
Hosteling — inexpensive
travel for teens and adultsi
|75 No. 1
United Press International
NEW YORK — That night in
Scotland, when there was no
room at the bed-n-breakfasts,
was a turning point in her life,
Stacy Landau will tell you.
“It was my first trip to
Europe,” Landau said. “I was
21. I’d just graduated from col-
lege.”
Having set out to travel
through Scotland on a British
rail pass and a limited budget,
she found herself in Aviemore
and all the bed-n-breakfasts
were full.
“Somebody told me about the
youth hostel and I lugged my
suitcase there,” she said. “It was
dinner time. There were a
bunch of kids, sharing the cook
ing. They welcomed me like I
was a long lost friend.
“I wound up staying a week
there. Then I threw away my
suitcase, bought a backpack and
for eight months I hosteled
through Scotland, England and
Europe.”
It had started as a summer
was soloing, traveling as an inde
pendent.
“But after I began hosteling, I
was never really alone unless I
wanted to be.
“You always meet people.
Often, you travel together for a
photo by Sumanesh Agrawal
What goes where?
Joe Atwood, left, a mechanical were taking a countryside drive,
engineering major, works on his Atwood’s roommate, Ron Keeney, a
girlfriend’s carburetor. Trouble geology major, helps with the work,
developed in the part while the two Both are juniors from Houston.
excursion.
“I’d planned to stay until my
money ran out,” she said. “Be
cause of hosteling I could stay a
lot longer.”
She said a night at a hostel
generally costs about a third as
much as a night at a bed-n-
breakfast, let alone a hotel.
She wrote a glowing letter to
American Youth Hostels on her
return and wound up with a job
promoting hosteling for the
Metropolitan New York AYH
Council, with 17,000 members.
Landau, a Brooklyn, N.Y.,
native, preaches hosteling with
evangelical fervor.
“It’s not just for kids,” she
said. “It’s open to all. Something
we’re working on is more accom
modations for couples.
“We have all sorts of tours.
And that has many advantages.
But I had set out almost on the
spur of the moment (five days
from decision to takeoff) and
...“Somebody told me
about the youth hostel
and I lugged my suit
case there ...A bunch of
kids welcomed me like I
was a long lost friend ...
I threw away my suit
case, bought a backpack
and for eight months I
hosteled through Scot
land, England and
Europe. ”—Stacy Land
au, a promoter for
American Youth Hos
tels.
dorm,” she says the hostels were
clean and well managed.
After all, as she puts it: “We
clean them. It’s part of the
routine. When you get up in the
morning, you are assigned a
chore by the house parents. Ev
erybody pitches in. It’s not a big
job and kind of fun.
“Often we could buy break
fast for a very nominal amount.”
She remembers with relish
“fresh churned butter, home
baked bread and hot chocolate”
at a hostel in Switzerland.
But AYH tours are the thing
for many. The advantages in
clude a tour leader who is an
experienced hosteler and has
taken an AYH training course in
such things as handling travel
problems and arrangements,
first aid, bike repairs and group
leadership.
A majority of the tours, of
which there are scores,
bikers. But some are f -*
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day or more. The people I met
at a hostel in Stockholm, I met
again in Italy.”
In all, she visited 15 coun
tries. She recalls the hostels in
castles in Scotland and Ger
many; those in chalets in Swit
zerland; one with a sauna and
steambath in Norway; one in
Wales you could hike to only on
foot; and one on a ship in Stock
holm harbor.
Except for a hostel in Venice,
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a warning for urban cowboys
who are joining the national
craze for cowboy boots — those
boots were made for riding,
podner, not walking.
Louis Shure, D.P.M., said in
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