Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians / by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball.

  • Reynolds-Ball, Eustace A. (Eustace Alfred), 1858-1928.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians / by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    (change), Grasse, and Nice leaves Mcyrargues at 8.15 a.m., and reaches Nice at 7.12 p.m. Distance about 130 miles. Fares: first-class, 17 fr. 70 c.; second-class, 13 fr. The journey is long and the trains slow, but as most of the line traverses very beautiful and varied scenery, through a country almost unknown to tourists, the slow rate of travelling has its compensations. Another railway not yet complete approaches Nice through the wild gorges of the Upper Var. It leaves the line from Grenoble to Marseilles at Digne, and is finished only as far as St. Andre, whence a diligence (6 fr.) runs via Annot to Puget- Theniers, on the Var. From this jioint the line is completed to Nice. Beanlieu-sur-Mer.—969 miles. Time, 26 hours (Calais- Med. express 24^ hours). Fares: first-class, £j 15s. 2d.; second-class, 6s.; via Dieppe, £6 l8s. id. and £i^. 155. 6d. Monte Carlo.—976 miles. Time, 26 hours (Calais-Med. express, 25 hours). Fares: first-class, £^ its.; second- class, 6s. ?>d.; return, £12 4s. lod. and ^8 17s. \d. ; via Dieppe, £6 i8s. ild. and £/^ l6s. id.; return, ;^io 17s. 2d. and £^ i6s. T,d. Mentone.—980 miles. Time, 28 hours. Fares: first-class, £] 16s.; second-class, 7^- Z^-) return, £12 6s. 3?/. and l8s.; via Dieppe, £6 19s. lod. and £^ i6s. grf ; return, ;^io l8s. 50'. and £^ 17s. 2d. Details of the sleeping car and trains de luxe services are given in the Riviera Routes above. Part II.—The Italian Riviera. Though the connection between the French and Italian trains is very ill arranged and inconvenient, probably inten- tionally so, and though the actual mileage is greater, the Marseilles route is preferable to that via Turin and Savona (except that the first-class carriages are more crowded), and is some twelve hours quicker. As there is a long wait at Ventimille Station, it is a good plan for passengers for Bordighera or San Remo to hire a carriage and drive direct from the station. If the party consists of several persons and