Holidays in Tyrol : Kufstein, Klobenstein and Paneveggio
Page 88 of 385
Author:
White, Walter / by Walter White
Place:
London
Publisher:
Chapman and Hall
Physical description:
XVII, 361 S. : Kt.
Language:
Englisch
Subject heading:
g.Tirol ; s.Urlaubsreise ; f.Belletristische Darstellung
Location mark:
II A-4.164
Intern ID:
155553
few places in Tyrol where, at times, you may see really eatable fruit, and is commonly lively while apples, pears, peaches, and grapes are in season, with sunburnt women to seil and pale-faced women to buy, and groups of country folk and gossips seated round the base of the fountain, But even bere the retailers take no pains to keep off the swarms. of wasps, nor to please the eye with niceness. The general Tyrolese notion of a dessert is sour grapes, and pears and peaches as hard as turnips. Here
, too, is the starting-place of the Stellwagens (if an English plural may pass) for Meran and Kaltem ; and touters,. eager to fili thè vehicles six times a day, call noisily on the bystanders to “ einschreiben,” to inscribe themselves, or 'to hook,” as we say in England now that there is no booking.. And of eating and drinking there is no lack, as may he seen