I expect the mule driver was glad of the rest too...
J P Smiles
Young girl documenting a family trip to Switzerland
But at last we did reach Grosse Scheideck [sic] and on the way we gathered our first Alpine Roses. – There was an inn on top of the Scheideck [sic] and there we stopped to take a drink.
There was a bench to sit down at placed outside the inn & looking in the direction of Grindelwald & here we sat and had our drink – I expect the mule driver was glad of the rest too […]
We heard an Alpine horn for the first time, it seemed like a great organ, the echo did, for all the mountains round, echo back the tones of the horn […] We saw Grindelwald some little way away, the air is so clear and pure in Switzerland […]
We went to our room & had some nice tea & rolls on our balcony table and Aunty Janet & Miss Shreeve came down too – we found a bouquet of wild flowers put for us on our balcony table by Aunty Janet, who is a great botanist […]
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