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Chap. I.
SEARCH FOR LODGINGS.
11
peasants, shops, nor native inhabitants; it is rather a
congregation of hotels and small lodging-houses, situated
at one English mile from the town of Kiel. Nothing
can be more beautiful than its situation: a long avenue
of trees leads you from the town thereunto, along the
fiorde side, alive with steamers, boats, and shipping, the
water clear as crystal. You pass by a succession of
villas belonging to rich Hamburg merchants,
constructed in every form of architecture that fancy can
design—Swiss chalets, Lombardian, Gothic, and
Renaissance—each planted in its little garden—garden a blaze
of gorgeous flowers, and here at any rate kept and cared
for as much for the delectation of the world in general
as for the proprietor himself. No envious walls hide it
from the view of the passer by ; it is common property
of eyes at large. A small railing separates it alone
from the depredations of dogs and schoolboys; the
gates are left unclosed by lock or key; and if you ask
to enter, or even enter without asking, you are kindly
welcomed. Then, on the heights above this range of
flowery villas, rise thick beechen woods. A forest behind,
green turf and bright flowers to refresh the eye, the
blue waters of the fiorde as your foreground — can
anything be more charming ?—But we are arrived at
Diisternbrook.
We had the usual bother about lodgings. At the
great establishment—where the band plays, and boats,
flag-bedecked, and sailors in duck-white trousers,
everlastingly await the orders of the visitors—all was full.
We then tried the Bellevue, a house which well
deserves its name, for its site is heaven-like, with no
better success; so later we made strong running for a
villa—a charming nutshell—just vacant; Wilhelmina’s
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