Cook's tourist's handbook to Switzerland Author:Thomas Cook Ltd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: there is a slight detention whilst the registered luggage is arranged in the spacious Custom House for examination; and after that little formality, the next imp... more »ortant thing is to reach your Hotel, and then to form some plans for the full enjoyment of the anticipated pleasure of a visit to this queen of European cities. As it forms no part of our plan to make this a Guide Book to Paris, we do not even give a list of places which every visitor ought to see—but proceed now to describe much more briefly than we have described the route from Dieppe, the routes :— I. From Boulogne to Paris. II. From Calais to Paris. And then we shall start off in company from Paris to Switzerland. (See p. 45.) FROM LONDON TO PARIS, VIA BOULOGNE, By South-Eastern Railway, via Sevenoaks to Folkestone, steam by good boats to Boulogne (passage 2 to 3 hours). Boulogne is the English colony of France : it is situated on the estuary of a small stream, the Liane, which forms a tide-harbour; it has all the interesting sights common to a large city, such as cathedral, museum, library, etc. Visitors staying here will find a pleasant pier, esplanade, ramparts, and sandy beach. Taking the train, " Chemin de Fer du Nord," at the end of the bridge on the left bank of the Liane, we run past Montreuil, the scene of Sterne's " Sentimental Journey." Moyelle, hard by the river Somme; the rail passes closeto the ford of Blanchetaque, where, before the battle of Cre'cy, Edward III. crossed the Somme. Abbeville, a large town, with narrow and dirty streets, and on through somewhat tame scenery to Amiens, which was the capital of Picardy, and is one ot the largest manufacturing towns for cotton velvets, cotton and woollen yarn, etc., in France. The noble Gothic cathedral in Amiens is well wo...« less