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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    tieneralc Ilaliana, leaving Hrindisi for Alexandria direct on the 1st (or 2nd) and 17th of each month, at i p.m. and reaching Alexandria on the third day at 1.30 p.m. Fares from Venice : 182 fr. 40 c. first, and 123 fr. 60 c. second (see also Venice). (c) FcHtca.—The P. & O. have for some years discontinued their Venice-Brindisi-Port Said service, but there is a fort- nightly service of the Navigazione Generale, leaving at 8 a.m. on the 15th and 30th for Alexandria. These boats, however, though well manned and well found, are not altogether suited to English passengers, as the hours of meals—10 a.m. breakfast and 6 p.m. dinner -are not in accordance with English tastes, nor, for the matter of that, is the cuisine. The marsala (supplied free) is, however, excellent. Fares: see above. I'he officers as a rule understand English. The Venice-Bombay service of this Company (N.G.I.) has been discontinued, and the steamers now start from Genoa (calling at Naples) on the i8th of each month at 7 a.m. (el) Naples. There is a service of the Navigazione Generale Italiana, leaving Naples every Wednesday' at 3 p.m. for Alexandria direct, arriving Sundaj'. 2.30 p.m. (Genoa-Naples- Alexandria service: see (e) Genoa). Fares, 230 fr. first, and 156 fr. second. (For railway services to Naples see Vol. I.). There are also the Orient Company's mail steamers already referred to, leaving Naples at midnight on October 2nd, and fortnightly thereafter. Fares to Port Said, £11 first, and £■] second-class. The North German Lloyd's fares to Port Said are the same. Sailings ev'ery week or ten days from October 13th. ((?) Genoa. Every week or ten days, from October 12th, a steamer of the North German Lloyd sails for Port Said, calling at Naples (see Naples Routes). Then on the l8th of each month, at 7 a.m., one of the fine Bombay steamers of the Navigazione Generale Italiana leaves for India, calling at Naples the next day and Port Said on the 23rd at 9 p.m. There is besides a weekly local service to Alexandria, leaving Genoa on Saturday, 9 p.m. (occasionally Sunday midnight), and reaching Alexandria Sundaj', 2.30 p.m. Messrs. Cook book passengers through from London to Cairo, via Calais and Genoa, for £20 2s. 30?. first, £1^, 15s. ^d. second.