Wanderings through unknown Austria

On Tuesday, 4th June, we had a regular "day out." We were twelve--the original eleven who went to Miramar, with the addition of "our host." We started at 7.30 in the morning, an...

This chapter is remarkable, since it introduces a new and interesting character to the public, to wit the "Gentle Lunatic," who rushed down upon us from the wild and boundless f...

I made two excursions to the Timavo and San Giovanni. The first was with the "Fat Boy." It was a rainy sort of day, and there was nothing to be done in the way of exercise but t...

My collaborator is to blame for this chapter. She found that when the eleven chapters already written and the Introduction and the Conclusion (reckoning the two last as chapters...

On Monday, 24th June, we went to Goritz--my collaborator, the "Gentle Lunatic," and I. Our party had already broken up--the "Energetic Lady" and the "Seal," Miss Umslopogaas, th...

All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors.

There is one great drawback about Duino--there are only two roads. One goes to Trieste and the other doesn't. It is rather monotonous always driving along the same road. Familia...

It was not quite so bad as all that. I did not go out in the rain, and at present I am neither deaf nor blind. I cannot be sure about the madness. It was very wet, though, but i...

On Friday, 31st May, we all went to Miramar, eleven of us. We drove to Nabresina, the nearest station to Duino, went from there to Miramar by train (it gave some trouble to the...

The covered passage before mentioned leads one straight to the principal staircase. It is a graceful winding staircase, and rare and interesting prints cover the walls. On the f...

I never read an account of any pile of stones, dignified by the name of "castle" and situated near the sea, that did not begin with these lines of Longfellow's. It is not the fo...

My collaborator and I drove to Villa Vicentina on Friday, June 7th. We took a lady who is possessed with the photographic mania with us, thinking she might be useful, and the Ot...

We were talking the other day of the many and interesting books of travel that have been written lately, books so full of valuable information and precise descriptions that you...