Bob Hanson wrote:
"The following two photos are scans of two postcards which I still have of a British youth hostel at which I spent two nights in 1970. This site was formerly the old City Mill in Winchester, Hampshire, England, originally built on the site of an earlier mill dating back 1000 years."
Bob and List:
Yup!! Stayed at that hostel in the mid 1960s, when I led European trips for the New York AYH. The British sure had some fantastic places as hostels.
Though I'm not a fan of the French, one of their hostels was the most incredible. It was located inside the walled-off monastery of Mont Saint Michel in northern France.
Most of the American youth hostels were pretty crude. As I mentioned in another post, the Sheffield, MA hostel dorm had been a chicken coop. The only two built specifically to be a hostel was Bantam Lake, CT (near Harriet Beecher Stow's Litchfield) and Martha's Vineyard, MA.
Michael Allison
NYC