A trip to Paris with a view to composing

Route

Helsinki (boat) – Stettin (train) – Berlin.

Accommodation

Hotel Der Königshof, Berlin.

Route

Berlin (train)- Hannover-Cologne-Reims-Paris.

Accommodation:

Grande Hotel de Malte, Paris
Hotel du Danube, Paris
Hotel de la Grande Bretagne

Return route

Paris (train)-Reims-Cologne-Hannover-Berlin- (continuation unknown).

Sibelius left for Berlin and on the spur of the moment continued to Paris, where he wrote new versions of Har du mod and attended the opera Salome by Strauss.