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Title: A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Vanderbilt, William K. (William Kissam), 1878-1944
Subjects: Automobile travel
Publisher: New York, Priv. print.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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A TRIP THROUGH ITALY, SICILY, TUNISIA, ALGERIA, AND SOUTHERN FRANCE December 3, 1912-January 23, 1913 PARIS TO BEAULIEU IT was on Tuesday, December 3, 1912, at11 A.M. that Mr. Payne and I once more foundourselves snugly installed in my 55 H.P. 1909Mercedes, ready for an extended trip throughItaly, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and back againthrough southern France. Itineraries and a time schedule had been care-fully prepared, and we calculated that a period ofabout fifty days would be consumed in coveringour proposed tour. The first part of our journey lay between Parisand Monte Carlo, and as this is fairly familiar tomost motor-tourists who have had much ex-perience in motor-traveling, it calls for little byway of description on my part. It will suffice,therefore, if I give but a short summary of ourrun to the Riviera. (3) is 19
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PARIS TO BEAULIEU Our first stop after leaving Paris was Senswhere we rested one hour for lunch before leav-ing for Auxerre. We halted, on our way, atLa Roche Railway Station to pick up one ofMr. Paynes bags, which had been sent by trainfrom Paris, and then proceeded to Auxerre atwhich town we arrived at twenty minutes pastfive in the afternoon, having made the 168 kilo-meters in three hours and thirty-five minutes,over wet and slippery roads, full of small holes.The weather, however, was fine and warm, aswas also our welcome at the Touring Hotel, avery comfortable and up-to-date house, where wedined and slept. The next morning, a few minutes after nine, weleft Auxerre behind us and were again en route.We passed through a dense fog for two hours,which delayed us a little, but we were fortunateto experience beautiful weather for the rest of theday, passing through Avallon under the hour, andreaching Chalons, a distance of 173 kilometers, insomewhat over three hours. Here we lunched and

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