A Day’s Tour

On a sweltering Wednesday in London, foreign streets grow so vivid in the narrator’s mind that he resolves to leave at once—with only thirty hours before he must be home again.

In this late-19th-century travelogue, Percy Fitzgerald follows an impromptu dash from London across the Channel and through France and Belgium. The narrator has precious little time: every connection must be measured, every hour used, or his chance to see old towns, towers and marketplaces will be gone. From Dover onward, he watches the passing scenes with a sharp eye for the quaint, the comic and the unexpectedly delightful. How much of a foreign journey can one traveler crowd into a day?

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