Pagina 54 di 257
Autore:
Smythe, Frank S. / F.S. Smythe
Luogo:
London
Editore:
Hodder and Stoughton
Descrizione fisica:
254 S. : Kt.. - 4th ed.
Lingua:
Englisch
Soggetto:
g.Tirol;f.Reisebericht 1935
Segnatura:
I 246.137
ID interno:
429422
, he gave us a piece of information which may or may not have been accurate —we suspected it to have been tainted by some personal grievance or prejudice. In reply to our query as to the best gasthof in Pfunds he recommended us to go to one in preference to another and qualified his recommenda tion by a denunciation of the non-recommended one, which he described as dirty and in general disagreeable. Perhaps, had we been cunning, we should have gone ' by opposites,' but we trusted him. Accordingly, when
we arrived at Pfunds, which is a long, straggling, undistinguished, melancholy sort of village, we sought accommodation at the recommended gasthof. It was a huge barn of a place with walls thick enough to withstand a siege, and rooms to match. Our bedroom was a vast apartment full of an enormous stuffiness : I doubt whether the window had been opened for years. The walls were mildewed and blotched with damp, and the peeling distemper hung from them like the skin from our sunburnt and blistered faces. Far