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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    ' 2. Overland Routes.—The principal Continental routes classified according to port of embarkation, are as follows :— (rt) Miv'seillcs.—This port is rapidly becoming a favourite place of embarkation with English travellers to Egypt, as there is a railway journey ofon]y twenty-two hours as against forty- five to Brindisi. There are several excellent services to Port Said by the Orient-Pacific, P. & O., and Bibby lines. The Orient boats (see Sea Routes) leave for Port Said via Naples on October 7th and fortnightly thereafter. Fares, Marseilles to Cairo, £16 14s. first, ^lO 7s. second. The P. & O. boats leave Marseilles every Friday at noon, arriving at Port Said on Tuesday afternoon. Fares, £16 first^ _^io second. Railway fares, London to Marseilles via Calais,. £6 14s. 5^. first, £/^ 12s. id. second. There is a special sleeping-car and restaurant service in connection witii this Marseilles-Port Said service, for the con- venience of first-class passengers joining the P. & O. steamers at Marseilles, leaving Calais for Marseilles every Thursday (in connection with the 11 a.m. express from Victoria). The train runs alongside the qua^-. The fare is £g gs. $d., and tickets are to be obtained at the office of the P. & O. Company. The Bibby Line steamers leave Marseilles for Port Said on October 5th, and afterwards every fortnight. First-class fare, £12 (return £21 los.). To Alexandria there are the services of the Messageries- Maritimes. A steamer leaves Marseilles for Naples and Alexandria (next call Port Said) direct every Thursday at 4 p.m., arriving on Tuesday morning. Fares : to Alexandria, ^12 first, and 8s. second class ; to Port Said, ;^I3 12s. and £9 16s. The Khedivial Mail Company's service from Marseilles to Alexandria has been discontinued. (6) Brindisi.—This is still the mail route, but since 1897 Marseilles (see above) is the port of departure for the direct Indian and Australian liners. The route is via Calais, Paris, Turin, and Bologna. The P. & O. express mail steamei leaves Brindisi for Port Said on Sunday evening as soon as the mails are on board, arriving at Port Said early on Wednesday morning. In order to catch this steamer passengers,..