Travel journal vol 2

Journal relating S M Miller's travels in Ireland, England, France, Monaco, and Italy in 1953.

Impressions of towns, cities, and other locations visited, including: Magillycuddy's Reeks, Limerick, County Clare, Galway, Donegal Bay, Ballycastle, Chester, Worcester, Gloucester, The Cotswolds, Oxford, London, Angouleme, Toulouse, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Cagnes, St Paul's, Grenoble, Bianco, Milan, Lake Como, Bologna, Florence, Pisa, and Rome.

Contains references to hitch-hiking, the various standards of hostels stayed in, art and architecture, other tourists and their behaviour, social customs (dancing, food, drinking), the Bodleian Library, obtaining visas, seeing a play by T S Elliot 'The Confidential Clerk', crossing the English Channel, beaches, hiking in the Alps, landscapes, casinos, agriculture (vineyards, sheep, goats, donkeys, crops), the weather, autumn, and industry (a visit to a car factory [Morris Minor?] in England). Diary entries in Ireland include topics such as politics, superstition, and Catholicism. French attitudes to the British are discussed. And the behaviour of Italian men towards female hitch-hikers is commented on.

Contains travel ephemera such as tickets for the Museo Teatrale alla Scala and another Italian attraction, stamps, a timetable for linge Marseille-aix-Avignon, and a business card for Dr Gepp Mitterftiller. Also includes pressed flowers.

Quantity: 1 volume(s) with two enclosures of loose materials. 0.01 Linear Metres.

Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, dried flowers