With a Camera in Majorca

With a Camera in Majorca

To those who are unacquainted with the Spanish language, the pronunciation of Majorcan names is such a stumbling block that the following phonetic rendering of some of those most frequently met with may be found useful: In the spring of 1906 we found ourselves with three months to devote to foreign travel, and after some deliberation we decided to spend them in exploring those Iles oublies of the MediterraneanMajorca, Minorca, and Ivizaand in ascertaining for ourselves whether they were worth visiting and what were the possibilities of a stay there. Their names, it is true, lingered in our memories like some familiar echo from far-off schoolroom days, but with regard to all practical details we were extremely ignorant, and it was without knowing a soul in the islands or a soul who had ever been there, that we set out on the last day of January to visit the Balearicsthose homes of famous slingers. A railway journey of twenty-two hours takes the traveller from Paris to Barcelona by way of Toulouse. The change from France to Spain is an abrupt one. After racing through flat lands of vine, through sand dunes and salt lagoons, one crosses the frontier into a dry place of 2red and orange hills, where stone villages stand bare and unshrinking in the strong sunlight, and here and there a palmsolitary outpost of the southwaves her dusty plumes; and the night falls suddenly upon a sky crystal clear, as the sun slips in glory behind the strong outline of the purple Pyrenees. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 54634
Author: D'Este, Margaret
Release Date: Apr 30, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English