Mediterranean seaports and sea routes including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker.
- Karl Baedeker
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Mediterranean seaports and sea routes including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PLAN OF TOUR. Of all the Mediterranean regions Egypt alone offers a dry, settled, and genial climate in winter. The traveller on the Eastern Mediterranean who wishes to avoid extremes of cold and heat should make liis first stay at Cairo in January or February, start for the Syrian coast at the end of February or early in March, proceed to Palestine and Damascus after March has commenced, and visit Asia Minor and Greece in April, and Constantinople and the Black Sea in May. In autumn, from the end of September on- wards, the above order should be reversed. Plan of Touii. The traveller is advised to draw up a careful programme of his tour before starting. All tlie places described in the Handbook may be reached by steamer, or partly overland, at any time of the year, but during the winter season (from about the end of October to the middle of May) much greater facilities are offered by excursion-steamers (see pp. xviii, 1, 2), circular tickets, and combined tickets. American travellers may sail direct I'rom New York or Boston to some of the Mediterranean ports (see p. xviii). Travellers from Great Britain may start from London, Idverpool, Southampton, or Dover, or if they dread a long sea- voyage may proceed overland to Marseilles, to Genoa, to Naples, to Brindisi, to Venice, or to Trieste (comp. p. xxiv), and begin their Mediterranean tour from one of tliese points. Some may prefer tlu' overland route to Spain and Gibraltar, wliile others again may find it more convenient to travel all the way to Constantinople (Orient Express), to Conslantza (Ostend-Vienna Express), or to Odessa (via Vienna and Cracow) by railway, and tlience explore the Med- iterranean from east to west. The railway routes will be found in •Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide’ or in the German ‘Reichs- knrsbuch’. For the ‘trains de luxe’ services tickets must be obtained from the International Sleeping Car Co. (Lo'idon, 20 Cockspur St., S.tV.; Baris, B Place de I’Opera; New York, 281 Fifth Avc.; Berlin, 01) Unter den Linden). For the sea-routes, see p. xvii; for particulars application should be made to the various conujanies or their handbooks consulted. Excursion, circular, and combined tickets are issued by Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, Ludgate Circus, and by other tourist-agents. It may be noted here that the ‘pleasure- cruises’ organized by many of the com])anies ofi’er great attractions at moderate cost, but at the almost entire sacrifice of personal independence, while the fellow-passengers with whom one is assoc- iated for weeks may not always be congenial. As a general rule it is ])leasanter and less expensive to travel with one or more companions than alone. Apart from hotel charges and railway and steamboat fares, the cost for two or three persons IS o ten no greater than for one. Moreover, when off the beaten Hack the tia\eller thus escajics Irom monolonoiis and mouosvllabic conversation with native guides or drivers ^eomp. pp. xxv,“xxvi),](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29011176_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
