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-T: HANDY GUIDE TO EUROPE (THE CONTINENT) WHAT« SEE WHERE TO STSfc v Issued by CANADIAN PACIFIC WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM SPACE Space for the Individual Pattenger Space to live! Space to play I that is the keynote of the Empress of Britain, the new five-day Atlantic luxury ship. She is the only giantess liner with all outside rooms (called " apartments," because they're too big to be staterooms), and 7o per cent, of these apartments have private baths. World-famous artists designed and decorated her vast public rooms. She Is the only ship with full-size tennis and full-size squash racquet courts and has the largest swimming pool on any ship afloat. Per individual passenger, there are more tons of ship. more square feet of living and playing space, than on any other liner in the World. FIVE DAY CROSSING The Empress of Britain provides a new and shorter route between North America and Europe. Quebec Is 5oo miles nearer than New York to Southampton and Cherbourg, and the actual Atlantic crossing is reduced to 3 J days, because I J days are spent in the sheltered waters of the St. Lawrence Seaway. WORLD C RUISE fmsm •lo, Alfierc Bombay, 5 Shanghai, m 42.Soo TONS OIL BURNER CANADIAN PACIFIC World's Greatest Trmni System HANDY GUIDE TO EUROPE T is not the purpose of this book to provide a fully descriptive Guide to I Europe—only to suggest, by summary, some of the principal attractions which should influence you when making your itinerary of a European visit. Necessarily, you will doubtless notice many things omitted which might perhaps have been in, but which the limitations of space cannot accom­ modate. Nor do we attempt to include every country in Europe— only the more usual ones in the lanes of tourist travel. The booklet is issued with the co­ operation of the official tourist or­ ganizations, railway systems and hotels of the various countries. It deals only with Continental Europe. A companion one about Great Britain and Ireland will be found in " Those Magic Isles," also issued by us. The Canadian Pacific maintains 59 offices in various European countries, which are always at the service of visitors from overseas, either for information or as headquarters. A list of these will be found on page 3 of cover. CANADIAN PACIFIC WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM Notre Dame, Paris CONTENTS • 59 imperial rway Belgium . 40 Italy Czecho-Slovakia . 66 Norway Denmark . 76 Poland France . 3 Spain Germany • 52 Sweden Holland . • 49 Switzerl-ind . Hungary • 63 Hotel and r ailway advertisements w ill be fo und at the end of their respective se A Map of Europ e will be ound on the centre page.s . Important The Canadian Pacific wishes it to be understood that while it is pleased to publish the advertise- nts of hotels which appear in these pages, and while these hotels are recognised, in their own com- initiea, as good ones, it does so only as a matter of information for travellers. The Canadian Pacific, /iously, cannot take any responsibility, legal or otherwise, for the standards of service, prices, etc., these establishments. The Eiffel Tower, Paris WHAT TO SEE IN FRANCE UMMER and winter alike, France has What can one say of Paris ? It is moi always something charming to offer those the capital of a great country. It is like lamp Swho explore her territory. In fact, the one shining and drawing all toward it, as if by difficulty with this country is that there is so Who has not heard of Paris, and longed | much to see, and time is, alas, not always un­ for himself. The wonderful shops, the magnifi- limited for holiday makers. Snow-clad moun­ t hotels, the theatre id the musical, literary tains or wfde, sunny plains ; rocky coasts carved deed, the whole " air " and split by the mighty Atlantic, or fields that of the place—make a sit to Paris an unfor- are really acres of flower gardens—these and a gettable memory. hundred other varieties are there for the enjoy­ The surroundings ; the least :o f : ment of whoever will but journey to see them. charms, and such spots , St. Ger The French railway system, both State-owned and Fontainebleau appeal > the Present with all and private, is extensive and efficient. The the force of the Past. TThl e r great palaces, once Trains de Luxe have a world-wide reputation, the resort of kings, togeth with those of Corn- . and besides these, there are the Pullman trains. piegne and Chantilly, impress. Sleeping cars are run on all the night expresses, There is the " and there are dining cars attached to all the principal day trains. It should be remembered also that sleeping cars for second-class passengers Dunkerque, Calais, Boulogne, Dieppe, Havre and Cherbourg—through these gateways flow Those contemplating a stay should know that a constant stream of happy tourists, who set France extends a hearty welcome to all who come out year by year, to explore France. These to visit her, and that everything will be done to northern ports are also the outlets for the rich make them feel at home. The organisation of manufacturing and industrial districts of Artois, the Office National du Tourieme publishes an Picardy and Flanders. Through them, too, one exhaustive list every year, giving the names of reaches Normandy. hundreds of hotels, great and small, throughout the This district, which a thousand years ago, sent land, with their minimum and maximum charges. out an army over the Channel to mix its blood These, once published, are strictly adhered to. with that of the Anglo-Saxons and found the The claim is made for the French hotels that English race, has always made a special appeal to their tariffs compare very favourably indeed with British and American visitors. William the Con­ corresponding establishments elsewhere. queror's castle at Falaise is still to be seen. the opportunity for some aineering among glaciers vfield, while those who prefer a less of this . grand range may cross most of the highest passes by motor. There are many spas such as Cauterets, Luchon and Ax-les-Thermes to be visited, and the marvel of Carcassonne, which has the best preserved mediaeval town walls in the world. At Perpignan we reach the Mediterranean coast at the far end of the Pyrenees. Round the coast by Narbonne and Aigues-Mortes we arrive at the beautiful Cote d'Azur, beyond Marseilles. Hyeres, Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo, are all set in a lovely climate between bright-tinted mountains and the blue Mediterranean. The whole district is epitomised in the views along the " Route des Alpes," the great motoring road, with which the Touring Club de France had so much to do. It traverses wonderful scenery all the way from the sea to Lake Geneva and the Swiss border. The valley of the Var, the scarlet precipices of Daluis and Briancon are passed, and then, after visiting Grenoble and La Grande Chartreuse, we enter the territory of Savoy. Aix-les-Bains and Chambery by the lake of Bourget herald the approach to the famed Winter-sports centre of Chamonix, crouching beneath Mont Blanc, the highest peak in all Europe. Now we cross the Rhone and come to Nantua, Jui i les Pins with its lake, and so to that wild stream, the Doubs, and then to Besancon, the last, a popular Bayeux, with its cathedral, ' d Rouen ng-ground. are packed with the fascinati of living history, ime to the striking country of the while, by contrast, there ; a string of gay Vosges—-immortalise d for English-speaking watering-places such as Trol rouville' , Deauville and people by Hik : Belloc in his " Path to Rome " Houlgate. The grandi ar of the Normandy coast —with gre nded hills like gigantic downs is unrivalled. The wc k of the sea is best seen covered wvit h forests in many places. Plom- at Etretat, where it ha: cut arches and pinnacles bieres, Vitt 1 and Bussang, where the cherrywood in the rocks. : from, are three much patronised spas. Further down the cooas t we reach Brittany, still Alsace, so much fought for, contains the a little kingdom in iitself , with its individual historic towns of Strasbourg-on-the-Rhine, with costumes and speech, Here we have grand rocks a handsome cathedral; Metz and Nancy, and alternating with sai idy beaches, the contrast many relics of the World War, carefully preserved. t Mont St. Michel. This The battlefields extend hence to the North Sea wild and impressive district well typified by at Dunkerque, where we complete the circuit of Carnac, where the tremendc ' of those our brief outline of the borders of France. We wild and eerie beings, the Di must now turn our attention to the centre. It is upon row of mysterious stones reared for pur­ packed v poses we can only guess at. Ploumanach and Thos lake with the Tregastel should be seen, and the shores of fascinating past of France, often bound up Quiberon and Belle Isle. with English his t do better than As we go further south along the great Bay of ith the old towns Biscay, the seaboard becomes less rugged, until nt, Amboise ai finally we reach the bathing beaches and pleasant :, of which the w jr, Balza coast towns between the Loire and the Garonne. s justly called Sables d'Olonne and Royan are popular here. of France,'" "and is full of delightful Beyond the estuary of the former river is a fasci­ old chateaux.

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