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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    did the voyage in less than forty-seven hours, so that letters from London for Egypt were exactly four days in transit. This route, with the long railway journey and somewhat restricted accommodation on the express steamers, is not altogether suited for delicate travellers, who are advised to travel instead by the alternative service of this Company via Marseilles, where they have the advantage of crossing the Mediterranean in large ocean liners. At all events passengers -.•id Brindisi can usually count on arriving in plenty of time to catch the 8.IO a.m. train to Cairo, which has consequently now been brought within Jive days of London. This acceleration of the Egyptian service is due to the Government mail contract with the P. & O. Co., by which the scheduled time for the mails from London to Bombay is further reduced to thirteen and a half days from February, I905. Then there is the Austrian-Lloj-d service in connection with th^ir Trieste-Alexandria service (see traitts de luxe services below). The steamer leaves every Friday at 2 p.m., and reaches .Alexandria at 6 a.m. Monday. As it would be necessary to leave Charing Cross to catch the Brindisi steamer the pre- vious Tuesday evening, the journej' occupying sixty-one hours, this route can only be recommended to those who want as short a sea passage as possible. Fares from Brindisi: £10 first; £6 2s. second; return, £1] and £11 l8s. A special train leaves Alexandria for Cairo in connection with this service. For the return journey the steamer leaves Alexandria for Brindisi and Trieste every Saturday at 3 p.m., reaching Brindisi every Tuesday at 5 a.m. (in connection with the train leaving at 7 a.m.), reaching Trieste every Wednesday at noon, in connection with the express train for London leaving Trieste at 6.30 p.m., via Calais. During the spring months the special train leaves Cairo station for Alexandria Quay. On the 26th of each month the Natal steamer could be utilised, as this calls at Brindisi as well as Port Said. The Austrian Lloyd's mail steamer leaves Brindisi (starting from Trieste) for Alexandria direct ever}- Friday at 2 p.m Fares: first-class, ^10; second-class, £6; return, £1] and iSs., and from London, ,,^39 5s. 6d. and £2] 4s. 2d. Then there is the fortnightly service of the Navigazione