"De Londres à Dublin"

Name of traveller

Charles Schindler

Reason for travel

• en route to Ireland

Date of travel

August 1902

Ces bois épais et d’un vert sombre se reflétèrent dans le détroit [Menai Strait], bleu comme un Bosphore. (Schindler 15)

Content

• agriculture: notes on cows and rustic horses
• architecture: Angelsey covered in low stone walls
• clothing: police uniform differs from English uniforms; different type of hat, looks like earthenware pot
• history: notes on Anglesey as the former Island of the Druids and their resistance to the Romans
• people:
  • description of inhabitants of Holyhead as differing from the Anglo-Saxon type found in London
  • notices importance of education for the Welsh
  • people of Holyhead lack the vigour of the English population
• recreation:
  • notices beaches and ports and their relation to tourism
  • observes workers on holiday
• terrain:
  • notes on mountains of north Wales and the constant humidity
  • mountains merge into sky, compares their summits with ruined fortresses
  • largely vague about specific places; frequently just classifies them as villages
  • Anglesey retains retains something of the fantastic
  • compares Menai Strait to Bosphore
• transport:
  • modes of travel: boat; train
  • takes train from London to Holyhead via north coast of Wales
  • chronicles the time it takes to travel on the train from London to Holyhead
  • mentions plans for development of the picturesque port in Holyhead
  • ferry from Holyhead is better than the Calais ones

Nationality of traveller

French

Language of publication

French

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

travelogue

Citation

Schindler, Charles. "De Londres à Dublin." En Irlande: De Londres à Dublin. Esquisse de l'histoire irlandaise. La ligue irlandaise unie. Les Irlandais à l'école. La bataille agraire. Evictions, etc. Paris: Felix Juven, [1903]. 13-7. Print.