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Oriental Outlines, or a Rambler's Recollections of a Tour in Turkey, Greece
Oriental Outlines or a Rambler's Recollections of a Tour in Turkey Greece Author:William Knight General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: Sampson Low Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sel... more »ect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. " Recent accounts have designated Napoli as the Paris of Greece. As far as respects the many narrow and offensive streets contained in the French metropolis, this comparison may be correct. But beyond this, we would recommend authors to be more moderate in their wmfiea." -- Von Tietz, vol ii. p. 181. Let no one imagine that the comforts of a Moreote hotel are equal to those of a ship. Whatever inconveniences a traveller may experience in the latter, are generally but " trifles light as air," when compared with the annoyances constantly encountered in the former. Von Tietz -- a Prussian Counsellor of Legation -- visited and decried Nauplia, when Otho was still content with such a city for his capital. The King has since removed to Athens, and Nauplia, therefore, remains in as bad a state as ever. Yet this Prussian Counsellor praised Napoli n 1834, more than our party could conscientiously do in 1837. I Lad been informed that the Piazza Platane contained m excellent hotel, generally denominated the Cassino. I went there on landing, but met with little to afford satisfaction. The house was certainly large, but the landlord -- Vassili Andoniathi -- rather too proud of hisfreedom to condescend to much civility. Nevertheless, no hetter place could be procured, and private lodgings, for so short a stay as I intended, were out of the question. The hotel apartments are confined to the second floor of the building, the first being appropriated to billiard and refreshment rooms. The ground floor is used as a theatre, where performances, in the Romaic tongue, take plac...« less