"Chez Paddy"

Name of traveller

Baron Edmond de Mandat-Grancey (1842-1911)

Reason for travel

• en route to Ireland

Date of travel

1886

Holyhead, petite île séparée de la côte par un étroit chenal que traverse un beau pont. (Mandat-Grancey 668)

Content

• transportation:
  • modes of travel: boat; train
  • train journey from London Euston to Holyhead takes 17 1/2 hours
  • admires the Royal Mail ships from Holyhead and praises them over the ships from Calais
• English translation: Paddy at Home. trans. A. P. Morton. London: Chapman & Hall, 1887. Print.
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Nationality of traveller

French

Language of publication

French; translation: English

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

travelogue

Citation

Mandat-Grancey, Edmond de. "Chez Paddy." Le Correspondant: revue mensuelle : religion, philosophie, politique, sciences, littérature, beaux-arts 108 (1886): 656-76. Print.