DJ Tommy - Lesson 4歌词是什么?

DJ Tommy - Lesson 4歌词是什么?

Economy is one powerful motive for camping,

since after the initial outlay upon equipment,

or through hiring it, the total expense can be

far less than the cost of hotels. But,

contrary to a popular assumption,

it is far from being the only one,

or even the greatest. The man who manoeuvres

carelessly into his five shillings worth of

space at one of Europe's myriad permanent

sites may find himself bumping a Bentley.

More likely, Ford Consul will be hub to hub

with Renault or Mercedes,

but rarely with bicycles made for two.

That the equipment of modern camping

becomes yearly more sophisticated is

an entertaining paradox for the

cynic, a brighter promise for the hopeful

traveler who has sworn to get away from it all.

It also provides--and some student sociologist

might care to base his thesis upon

the phenomenon--an escape of another kind. The

modern traveller is often a man who dislikes

the Splendide and the Bellavista,

not because he cannot afford, or

shuns, their meterial comforts,

but because he is afraid of them.

Affluent he may be, but he is by no means sure

what, to tip the doorman or the chambermaid.

Master in his own house, he has little idea of

when to say boo to a maitre d'hotel.*

From all such fears camping releases him.

Granted, a snobbery of camping itself,

based upon equipment and

techniques, already exists, but it is of a kind that,

if he meets it, he can readily

understand and deal with. There

is no superior 'they' in the shape

of managements and hotel hierarchies

to darken his holiday days.

To such motives, yet another must be added.

The contemporary phenomenon of motor-car worship is to be

explained not least by the sense of

independence and freedom that ownership entails.

To this pleasure camping

gives an exquisite refinement.

From one's own front door to home or

foreign hills or sands and back again,

everything is to hand. Not only

are the means of arriving at the holiday paradise

entirely within one's own command and keeping, but the

means of escape from holiday hell

(if the beach proves too crowded,

the local weather too inclement) are there,

outside--or, as likely, part of--the tent.

Idealists have objected to the practice of camping,

as to the packaged tour,

that the traveller abroad thereby

denies himself the opportunity of getting

to know the people of the country visited.

Insularity and

self-containment, it is argued,

go hand in hand. The opinion does not survive

experience of a popular

Continental camping place.

Holiday hotels tend to cater

for one nationality of visitors especially,

sometimes exclusively. Camping sites,

by contrast, are highly cosmopolitan.

Granted, a preponderance of Germans is a

characteristic that. seems common to most

Mediterranean sites; but as yet there

is no overwhelmingly specialized patronage.

Notices forbidding the open-air drying of clothes,

or the use of water points for car

washing, or those inviting 'our camping

friends' to a dance or a boat trip are

printed not only in French or

Italian or Spanish, but also in

English, German and Dutch. At meal times

the odour of sauerkraut vies with that

of garlic. The Frenchman's breakfast

coffee competes with the Englishman's bacon and eggs.

Whether the remarkable growth of organized

camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind

is hard to say. Municipalities naturally

want to secure the campers' site fees and

other custom. Police are wary

of itinerants who cannot be traced to

a recognized camp boundary or to four walls.

But most probably it will all

depend upon campers themselves:

how many heath fires they cause,

how much litter they leave, in short,

whether or not they wholly alienate

landowners and those who live in the countryside.

only good scouting is

likely to preserve the freedoms so dear to the

heart of the eternal Boy Scout.