United States or Democratic Republic of the Congo ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I could see they were looking out for some rich tourist with his trunks, as a more lucrative fare; so I sent for the head-porter, who had charge of the platform. When the porter arrived we chose a cab, and I saw my charge driven off to her hospital, sitting on the front seat, with her handkerchief to her eyes.
Let the tourist get admission at least into the garden, and fling himself on that soft award just opposite to the exterior angle of the house. He will there get the double frontage, and enjoy that which is so lovely the expanse of architectural beauty without the formal dullness of one long line. It is the colour of Ullathorne that is so remarkable.
Of these, the tourist should first visit Carrig-o-gunnel, next Adare, and then Castle Connell, the most beautiful of many beautiful places upon the banks of the noble Shannon. We left Glasgow on the morning of the 22d, and taking the railway to Ardrossan were soon at the beach.
The English Tourist was holding his Head. "I guess you won't carry on so Gay since he's come," said the Sensitive Waitress, addressing the Advance Agent. "Did he Call you Down?" asked Edmund, the Loving Fireman, glancing at the Advance Agent. "He used me like I was the Dirt under his Feet," she replied, placing her Hand on her Breast and biting her Lower Lip.
But, apart from the self-consciousness and impertinence which detract so much from the value of most recent books of travel, it may be doubted whether, since the French Revolution gave birth to the Caliban of Democracy, there has been a tourist without political bias toward one side or the other; and now that the "Special Correspondent" has been invented, whose business it is to be one-sided, if possible, and at all events entertaining, the last hope of rational information from anywhere would seem to be cut off.
The work of Nathan Cook Meeker in all that makes for industrial and social progress and moral ideals contributed incalculable aid to Colorado. All over the state the tourist is asked, "Have you seen Greeley? That is our ideal town." During all the years of Mr. Meeker's residence in Colorado he remained a staff correspondent of the "Tribune."
A Guide may be appointed to obtain time-tables, maps, railroad guides, the little books of travel, or other descriptions of routes and of the parts of the country that are to be visited. The principal features of the country passed through may be described, if time permits; also the more important cities. The Guide takes charge of the class in the same way that a tourist guide would do.
The latest tourist of them all made the same old regulation trip he had not heard that there was anything north of St. Louis. Yet there was. There was this amazing region, bristling with great towns, projected day before yesterday, so to speak, and built next morning. A score of them number from fifteen hundred to five thousand people.
There were exiled Genevans, like de Lolme, holding their own in foreign political and intellectual circles; there were emigrant Genevan pastors holding aloft the lamps of culture and piety in many cities of England, France, Russia, Germany, and Denmark; there were Genevans, like François Lefort, holding the highest offices in the service of foreign rulers; and there were numbers of Genevans at Geneva of whom the cultivated grand tourist wrote in the tone of a disciple writing of his master.
"My father, and my mother too, are dead, And here I put this grave-stone at their head; My father lived to eighty-seven, my mother No quite so long and one died after t'other." The effect of historical reading is analogous, in many respects to that produced by foreign travel. The student, like the tourist, is transported into a new state of society. He sees new fashions.
Word Of The Day