From Switzerland to the Mediterranean on Foot (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from From Switzerland to the Mediterranean on Foot In the autumn of 1919, my wife and I, war weary like most other people, had gone to Sierre in the Swiss Rhone Valley, for rest and change of scene. But a spell of bad weather in November made us dissatisfied with our choice, and we determined to migrate to warmer climes. We planned a visit to one of the towns of the French Riviera, Nice, Cannes, or Mentone, it mattered not which, the blue sky and the sun glittering on the Mediterranean were the attractions. But the final goal was not the only aim, else we might have reached it quickly by train. A prize is not valued if won too easily, and it was our intention to make the entire journey on foot, we would walk every step of the way to the sea. At nine o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, 3rd December, we set out on our task, with such brilliant sunshine and champagne air, that it seemed folly to be going so far for what was near at hand. Our first day's march was to end at Sion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.