Identifier: enroutedescripti00trev (find matches)
Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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heguiding stick ; those innumerable villages, peacefuland quiet, where the storm and struggle of lifeseem to be quite unknown ; those peasants work-ing in the fields, who stop to wave a cheery signalas we flash past. Ah, how wonderful is France,and what a memory it leaves upon- the mind! What a dim impression one had of France, whenthe view was limited to the narrow confines of arailway window. Paris—Biarritz—the Riviera,that was the France we knew. But with the birthof the car came knowledge greater than one everdreamt of; places dubbed inaccessible now lie inyour path ; others, spoken of as uninteresting, andunworthy of note, are now immortalised by thatselfsame car. Ever onward, one rushes, now tearingalong a road straight as an arrow, now mounting,with unabated speed, a long and steep incline,with a hum that makes the heart rejoice, and theblood course more swiftly, as one meets the keenforce of the wind; next, one is crawling through a18 f*l^ .m^^^* -i^ Jr viwaiv^^. *?^if-v m
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A DASH FOR THE ALPS village, till, with a sigh of relief, the open road isreached, and the onward rush continued. Through Troyes, the ancient capital of Cham-pagne, to Besan9on, the city once of sieges, now ofwatches, on the wings of the speed-god we werecarried, and the gate of Switzerland lay before us.At the French frontier we stayed long enough toobtain a passavant laboriously made out by a pain-fully polite official. A short and easy climb broughtus to the summit of the Col de Roches, where theroad passes through tunnels bored deep into therock, and emerges before the doors of the Swissdouane. I had ready the 600 frs. which I had alwayspaid for a car entering Switzerland, and waited forthe necessary papers to be made out. To my sur-prise the douanier demanded 900 frs. Explana-tions followed, and I was told that the customduty had been raised 50 per cent. As ill-luckwould have it, I had only English gold and notes,above the 600 frs. I had already tendered; I knewthat at Neuchatel,

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