Show bavarian distances in the bavarian highlands sign posts along the roads instead of staf ing the number of miles or kilometers to the various villages give the amount of time which the average pedestrian will supposedly take to traverse the distance this Is merely an official expression of tl e very gen eral custom of the peasants in the re gion who invariably tell inquirers on he roads not how far it is to a place but how long it takes to get tl ere not only that but they make the system still more unsatisfactory to the stranger by a little additional eccel triciti of their own for instance one asks how far 13 it to A small halt hour will be the an awer or perhaps a good half hour or a big half hour vv alch is puzzling until the stranger learns that a small half hour means 20 minutes a good halt ho ir 30 min utes a big half hour 35 minutes a small three quarters of an hour 40 minutes and so on |