Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-09-11
Q TRAVELLER WRITES ABOUT
9 BlNGEN AND HEIDELBERG.

you Of our trip as far as Amsterdam
We were there until Friday noon. whe
we left by train for Cologne. At frs
we had planned to go all the way fror
Rotterdam to Mainz by boat on tn
Rhine, but as there is not much seen
, cry on the Rhine below Cologne, de
cided to go that far by railroad. wa,
there during the Easter vacation. OF
course. but did not see much of tn,
cathedral at that time, because there
was service going on. This time
had better luck, and got to see more
of it, 1t is an immense building, but /
do not think I like it as well as some
of the English cathedrals.
All day Saturday-from $50 i'm the
morning till 6:10 at Might've were
on the Rhine. That of course was a
fine trip but not so wonderful as one
would eexpect, from it's reputation.
The castles look romantic enough. but
the hills on which they are situated
are for the most part tame affairs; in
the matter of natural scenery, the Co
lumbia has the Rhine backed complete
ly off the boards. II Heine had seen
Rooster Rock he would never have
taken the trouble to write Die Lo-
relief" We passed the LoreleifeIsen
late in the afternoon; there the river
narrows down and makes a sharp turn,
so that it is, or was once, dangerous
to navigation. The rock itself is near
" four hundred feet high, but its
clothing of trees and shrubbery some |
what conceals any forbidding aspect !
it may have. Nearly all the way along
the river the hills are covered with
trees, they are not the kind you
see along the Columbia. Such pine
trees as there are are small and scrag-
ely, but most Of the trees are of some
smaller kind
We stopped at Bingen that night
instead of going on to Mainz, as first
eleven and a half hours on
- | (
3ingen is a pretty place. though we
lid not get much more than a general ,
lew of it, from the castle overlooking 8
he town. The next morning we took {
he short trip from there to Heidel- 3
erg, where we stopped the rest of the
ay 1t was frightfully hot in Heidel- =
hot
} see much-and after a climb up the +
i'll to see the old castle which is its +
hief attraction we spent the rest of q
le.day trying to cool off Heidelberg U
noted for its drinking, which is n
,me distinction in country like Ger q,
any, and its reputation is confirmed g
Y one of its show places. In the cellar n
the castle is a great cask with Ii
opacity of more than forty-siX thou
nd gallons. Another thing for which n,
is noted is that duelling is a favorite
stime for the university students
e did not see any of that though. the q
hibitions seem to be open to the
blic 1t is quite common in Ger
any to meet men with long scars on
cir faces, and the marks are regard
as marks of honor. The practice is te
I so common as it used to be, how wi
err and is now only carried on gen ilv
lily by the members of those stu LET
Mt clubs that regard themselves as Fla
the highest class socially. 1t is, of is
arse. done at all the German uni he
'sities, but at Heidelberg more than an
ewhere NJ,
from Heidelberg we continued up ma
Rhine. by train, to Basel, stor ping
Strassburg for two or three hours to1
the middle of the day. There we Ri,
Y the cathedral. with an old clock pai
which at the times of striking fig for
s come out to dance and various las
er wonderful things happen. Basel rar
lust inside the Switzerland line and ire
re we had another lenient customs one
for the third time within hoI
leek From Basel to Lausanne the ten
I day the trip was among mount fail
s-real mountains. But l have not Z
e to write more now. fled
ausanne, July 16. GER
ausanne is turning out to be a fine be
e. and l think it win be a good har
e for the summers work. 1t was tho
Ter hot the first two days we were tray
:. and the prospects looked bad, but Fail
the second day cooled owe
X, and since then it has been quite is ;
Portable. The town is located on hav
side Of a steep hill. rising directly that
I the shore of the lake. and our L
ding house is up near the top end sher
ne town, so that we get all there is m
he way of breeze and view. And tiga
view is worth a good deal. for we mat
see large part of the lake as