} } 3 days. H.-Another ROUTE FROM Days in Days of Travelling. Sojourn. To Saxon Switzerland 4 Herrnhut and 4 Adersbach 2 3 Carlsbad 1 Eger, .... Franzensbrunn 2 1 dorf, the Fran- land.... 1 Annweiler and back 1 4 Carlsruhe 6 l as in Strasburg 8 I B. Ban de la Roche and back Over the Kniebis 12 hours, to Tubingen Stuttgard.. 3 1 Heilbronn 6 0 Descent of Neckar 10 By Erbach, in the 8 Odenwald Frankfurt. 8 Taunus Mountain 1 1 to Limburg. Siegburg. 11 Cologne 3 :: } 1.- SKETCH OF A SECOND TOUR IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE Hours in Days of Travelling. Sojourn. London to Antwerp 30 as in Brussels 11 B. 8 [Excursion up the Meuse to Dinant and Givet, 1 day or 1.1.] Liège. 8 Spa 3 Malmedy 5 Treves. 1 or 2 Descent of Moselle to Coblentz 3 Excursions 2 Oberstein..... Tonnerre......5 Kaiserslautern Landstuhl, 8 1 Dürkheim.. L.-What may be done in THREE Weeks, travelling by public conveyance, and now and then at night. Hours in Hoursof Days. Travelling. Halt. i London to Ostend.. 18 (sleep.) Bruges 21 2 Ghent, Sleeping in the night barge 7 Ghent.... 12 34 Antwerp, by night Diligence 4 Antwerp 24 5 Antwerp Brussels by rail-road 1 (sleep.) 6 Brussels... 24 By Waterloo and the Meuse to Liege.. 16 (sleep.) } 8 Hours of Halt. Hours in Days. Travelling. (Aix la Chapelle by Chaudfontaine 8 3 and Verviers... to Cologne by night coach..... 10 Cologne. 12 Night coach to Cob lenz-the scenery 8 ing 6 10 To St. Goar, by a hired carriage... 6 (sleep.) 11 To Rudesheim seeing Rheinstein and >12 (sleep.) the Niederwald.. 12 To Wiesbaden..... 8 (sleep.) 8 and 13 To Frankfurt . 14 To Heidelbergby}16 (sleep.) 10 Heidelberg 15 To Manheim 37 (sleep.) 16 By steam to Cologne 14 do. 17 Nymegen 12 do. 18 Rotterdam 8 do. 20 London.. 48 21 Four days more would enable the traveller to include Baden and Strasburg. A person who secures his place beforehand in the mallepost at Calais to Paris, and at Paris to Strasburg, and who travels with a ForeignOffice Passport, so as to avoid the two days' delay at Paris, occasioned by the necessity of exchanging his passe-provisoire, might reach Štragburg in five days from London. As is observed in the body of the work, the voyage from Strasburg to London down the Rhine is performed by Steam-boats in Five Days. 4 sleep N-LONDON TO NAPLES. Hours on the Way. To Paris by mallepost . 48 Chalons sur Saone..... 54 8 13 Marseilles ..... 6 or 8 Genoa, by steam. 2 days Leghorn, ditto 2 Civita Vecchia, ditto 2 Naples..... 1. This journey is practicable in fifteen days. This route, as here laid down, would give a traveller the opportunity of seeing several most interesting cities and much fine scenery--though of course they could not be explored thoroughly in such a flying visit. A great many of our countrymen, having no fixed plan to travel by, seem only to calculate how far from home they can go in a limited time, and are contented with what they can see from the deck of the steamer and the window of the diligence. They would be much more gratified were they to portion out their time somewhat in the manner indicated above. 0.-LONDON TO CONSTANTINOPLE AND ATHENS, DOWN THE DANUBE. Days in Travelling. To Vienna as in D. 10 Presburg by the Danube 12 hrs. to Pesth, steam-boat Drenkoya... Skela Gladova, by land Gallacz, by steam 7 days Days in Travelling. from Athens to Corsa, though one Constantinople, by steam 56 hrs. is expected shortly to run. Smyrna, by steam every week The British Post-office MediterraAthens, twice a month. nean Steam-packets go and return once a month from Falmouth to The distance from Vienna to Con Corfu, touching at Cadiz, Gibraltar stantinople, 1500 miles, may, under and Malta. The French are about favourable circumstances, be per- to start a Steam-boat from Marseilles formed in ten or twelve days. Six to Malta. There are Steamers al. Steam-boats are at present running ready from Marseilles to Naples, and between these two places. from Naples to Palermo and Malta, There is no Steam-boat at present once or twice a month. Those among the above routes which belong to Southern Germany and Switzerland will be described in the Second and Third Volumes of the Hand-book. |
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