1861-Itinerary

Jules Verne travel details, Scandinavian journey 1861
One of the sources for this list is the Verne -diary
at Bibliothèque municipale d’Amiens, JV MS 12.
– Many thanks to Volker Dehs on help in transcribing.
-some keywords are clickable image/video links-

Date, day	City	Transport	Notes

JULY 2 Tuesday	dep. Paris
3Wednesday	arr. Hamburg
4Thursday
5 Friday	arr. Lübeck	Train	Hotel Europa
6 Saturday	arr. Ystad	Steamer «Svea»	stay. overnight
7 Sunday	passing Karlskrona going through Kalmarsund(strait) arr. Stockholm(evening)	Steamer «Svea»	Staying at Hotel Rydberg in Stockholm
8 Monday	Stockholm		promenade
9 Tuesday	Stockholm		Comedy theatre, “Dale-karlene”
10 Wednesday	Stockholm
11 Thursday	Stockholm
12 Friday	Stockholm
13 Saturday	Stockholm
14 Sunday evening	dep. Stockholm
15 Monday	Motala	Canal-boat (?)
16 Tuesday	arr.Töreboda stop at train station. passing village; Sjötorp and lake Vänern	Canal-boat	During night passing the canal´s highest point – 308 feet (?)
17 Wednesday	arr. Göteborg	Canal-boat	Hotel “Götakanal”(?)
18 Thursday	06.00 dep. Göteborg, Sweden – 17.00 arr. Stavern, Norway	paddle steamer «Viken» – Going inshore up Oslo-fjord, westside, on the way calling at: Larvik, Horten, Vallø, Moss, Drøbak	11 hours, 95 Nautic.miles => 8,5 knots
19 Friday	02.30 arr. Oslo. evening: Chri.Theatre: Donizetti: “Lucie Lammermoor”		arr.HotelVictoria transfer to Hotel du Nord
20 Saturday	Oslo		Visiting doctor, getting invitation for next day) [see page 11 Joyeuses misère] [C.W.Boeck ?]
21 Sunday	Oslo – Eidsvoll near lake Mjøsa return to hotel, Oslo	Train: Eidsvoll-banen – seeing (sailing?) paddle steamer: «Dronningen»	Visiting Doctor at country-home, conversation with a doctor & a Professor (?)
22 Monday	Oslo	Seeing Mr. Bennett (wagons)	Visiting Dr. Boek at his hospital (Syphilis) [Carl Wilhelm Boeck (?)]
23 Tuesday	arr. Sandvika -fjord (just outside Oslo)	Steam sloop «Josephine»
24 Wednesday	dep. Sandvika at 14.00 (along fjord) arr. Drammen 19.00 Dep. after dinner(?) at 20.30 – arr. Hokksund at 23.00 (continuing right away)	uncertainties: If travelling on the fjord: then most likely with paddle steamer «St.Hallvard» — leaving on ‘Kariol’/horse	Dining at hotel Scandinavie, Drammen. [Kiøsteruds hotel]
25 Thursday	arr.Kongsberg 02.00	Kariol/horse	Dame/widow Inger Kristine Hansen´s Privat-Hotel — waiting for horses, seeing waterfall
26 Friday	dep. Kongsberg 06.30 arr. Tinnes, Notodden at12.30 passing Listhus and Bamble at Heddal valley – arr. Tinnoset – south end lake Tinn at 20.00	Kariol	Early lunch at “un auberge fort propre”: ‘Kobbervollane’, Meheia (?) [see videoclip] – stopping 4 hours at ‘Heddal Stavkirke’ [medieval wooden church]
27 Saturday	dep. Tinnoset 06.00 arr.Håkaneset (cape, with big farm) at 10.00 – waiting for Horses at hamlet Mael – arr. Dale guesthouse at 15.15	Row boat, almost the full length of Lake Tinn – Kariol / horse	[PJM: rowing lake Tinn in 4 hours sounds impossible]
28 Sunday	Sightseeing Vestfjorddalen (Rjukan) with river Maana		Seeing the river Maana, the waterfall: ‘Rjukanfossen’ and the tiny Church. [west-fjord-valley]
29 Monday	Mount Gausta		Up early, crossing the river Maana twice, ascending the mount Gausta, starting at 07.30
30 Tuesday	dep. Dale at 07.30	Kariol /horse	apparently travelling on, the whole night
31 Wednesday	via Listhus at Heddal valley (05.50) arr. Hokksund at 17.30 – arr. Drammen at 20.30	Kariol /horse	From 31 – 1; staying the night at Hotel Scandinavie, Drammen ?
AUGUST 1 Thursday	dep. Drammen 08.00 arr. Oslo 14.00 – via Kongeveien + Paradis-bakkene	Diligence, the ‘Alliance’	[the ‘Kingroad’ via the Paradise hills] in Lier outside Drammen – see videoclip Checking in at Hotel du Nord, Oslo? [see News Clip]
2 Friday	Morning promenade Oslo		evening: ‘Klingenberg Theatre & garden’ lady café-singers doing Offenbach
3 Saturday	dep. Oslo 06.00 ?	paddle steamer «Kronprindsesse Louise» [image]	Steamship «Viken» is not able to leave (?)
4 Sunday	passing Helsingør at 05.15 arr. Copenhagen at 07.00		Hotel Phönix [see «JV-Portalen«]
5 Monday	Promenade Copenhagen		seeing Vor Frelsers kirke+ Tivoli
6 Tuesday	arr. Korsør at 22.00 dep.at 22.30	Train – leaving on Steamer «Hermod»
7 Wednesday	Return via Kiel
8 Thursday	Back in Paris

Hand-drawings in the Verne diary from Scandinavia
Many vernians have been wondering about a castle like building in a very nice drawing made by the author, which have appeared several places on the internet. This illustration was also used on the frontcover, when the French magazine GEO published the manuscript of Joyeuses Misères de trois voyageurs en Scandinavie in 2003. After some investigation I finally found out which.
As can be seen in my presentation, the hand drawing apparently is one of the very first buildings that Verne saw when entering the inner parts of the Swedish archipelago. In his diary he has drawn The ‘Kastellet’ on ‘Kastell-holmen’ island, while entering Stockholm harbour.
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See the other Verne-drawings from Scandinavia here