From the Thames to the Tiber / or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc.

A travel narrative recounts a tour from London through Paris, Dijon, Turin, Genoa, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, and parts of Switzerland, offering day-to-day impressions, site-by-site descriptions, and historical and artistic commentary. The writer combines practical travel notes—hotels, trains, tunnels, and meals—with guided visits to museums, cathedrals, monuments, and ruins, discussing architecture, famous artworks, and local traditions. Biblical and historical reflections interweave with personal anecdotes about companions met en route and moments of astonishment before landmarks such as St. Peter's, the Coliseum, the Uffizi, and St. Mark's. The tone is observational, episodic, and meant to inform and entertain the general reader.