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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    1. Via Calais, LaoH, St. Gotliard, and Bologna.—1048 miles, 43^ hours. Through carriage Calais to Basle. There are two expresses a day, one (a) leaving Victoria at 11 a.m. and arriving at 5.40 a.m. on the second daj', in 41 hours from London ; and the other (6) leaving Charing Cross at 9 p.m. and reaching Florence at 6.3 p.m. on the second day after leaving London. Fares : first-class, £2> i6s. id.; second-class, £6 4s. Owing to lack of connection at Milan, where the passenger is stranded for several hours, this route takes about 44 hours, (c) The fastest service (37 hours) is by the new 2.20 p.m. express from Charing Cross (Boulogne), by which Florence is reached on the second morning at 6.34. By the (a) service there is a sleeping car from Calais to Basle (l6s. 6d.) and Milan to Florence (15 fr. 25 c). Luggage can be registered through, but is examined at Chiasso. 2. Via. Calais, Laon, Basle, St. Gothard, and Pisa.—385^ hours. A quick but inconvenient route. The route as far as Milan is the same as No. I (a). The train leaves Milan at 3.30 p.m., and arrives at Florence 1.38a.m. Fares : first-class, £^0s. lod. ; second-class, £6 Js. 2,d. No return tickets booked. Luggage examined at Chiasso. 3. Via Dover, Ostcnd, Basic, St. Gothard, and Bologna {B.S.R.). Time 40 hours. Fares: first-class, £-] 13s. ^d.; second-class, ^5 13s. qd. Leave Victoria 1.30 p.m., reaching Milan next evening at 10.23, arriving at Florence 6.34 a.m. Through carriages Ostend to Basle. Luggage registered to Florence examined at Basle. Sleeping car Ostend to Basle, first-class, i6s. 6d.; second-class, 13s. Td. 4. Via Calais, Paris, Mt. Can's, and Bologna.—The train leaves Victoria at 11 a.m. and reaches Turin at 2.26 the next afternoon. Here change carriages, as the through carriages go to Rome, via Genoa. The train for Florence leaves Turin at 8.5 p.m., reaching its destination at 6.34 the next morning. Fare: first-class, ;^8 185. ^d. ; second-class, £6 3s. ^d. Time, 43^ hours. But the connection to Paris (10.25 P-m-) can usually be effected by taking the 2.20 p.m. from Charing Cross, thus saving three hours. Supplementary fare for sleeping car Paris to Turin, 3^. 9,/. ; to Genoa or Pisa, £1 12s. lod.