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TRAVEMÜNDE.
Chap. I.
nance; they overhang too the river Trave, with her boats
and shipping; and on the opposite side, beyond the
quays, rise the tall unstraight church spires, and the
ancient gateways, and houses of all kinds nodding at each
other as though about to topple over, but they don’t, and
have, I doubt not, been nodding in like manner for the
space of centuries. Could you disembarrass the city of
its inhabitants and their costumes of the nineteenth
century, you might imagine yourself carried back to the
days of Hemling and Albert Dürer. All contribute to
make you forget that legs will tire, and feet grow sore.
Tramp—tramp—we wandered on till we could go no
further, so we supped in a tea-garden off sausage and
Bavarian beer, came to a ferry, embarked, crossed the
river in a boat, and at last regained our hostel.
TRAVEMÜNDE.
The heat of the day was at an end when we quitted
Lubec. A drive of an hour and a half along a shady
avenue through a country flat and uninteresting brought
us to the sea-bathing village of Travemünde.
As we approach, the Trave appears bristling and
bustling with merchant vessels and Russian steamers
bound for St. Petersburg, and then later the wide
expanse of the Baltic discloses itself.
I find the village much as it was, all lodging-houses
and charmilles, little changed and less improved, and
the bathers supping out in front of their houses, under
the lime-trees, just as I recollect them formerly. We
drive to the bath establishment, and find it crowded
to overflowing; the landlord can lodge us for three
days, then our rooms are let, and we must seek
accommodation elsewhere.
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