Notebook – Athens to Winterton
Reference code
FOW/01/61/B
Title
Notebook – Athens to Winterton
Date
1906
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Diary of travels from Athens to London (continued from FOW/01/61/A), including:
* Athens (Theatre of Dionysos, Pnyx rock dwellings), Salamis, Cape Matapan, Sphacteria, Syracuse (Cathedral, Fort Euryalus, aqueduct and catacombs, Church of St Marcian, Roman amphitheatre, Greek theatre, fountain of Arethusa);
* Return to Marseilles from Syracuse, onwards to Avignon, Paris, London, Doncaster and Winterton.
Observations of landscapes, architecture, flora, food and drink, life aboard the boat and fellow passengers.
Includes a section entitled ‘Continental Repasts’ detailing meals taken on his travels, cross referenced to locations and diary numbers and supported by loose sheet entitled ‘Vocabulary for Continental Repasts’.
* Athens (Theatre of Dionysos, Pnyx rock dwellings), Salamis, Cape Matapan, Sphacteria, Syracuse (Cathedral, Fort Euryalus, aqueduct and catacombs, Church of St Marcian, Roman amphitheatre, Greek theatre, fountain of Arethusa);
* Return to Marseilles from Syracuse, onwards to Avignon, Paris, London, Doncaster and Winterton.
Observations of landscapes, architecture, flora, food and drink, life aboard the boat and fellow passengers.
Includes a section entitled ‘Continental Repasts’ detailing meals taken on his travels, cross referenced to locations and diary numbers and supported by loose sheet entitled ‘Vocabulary for Continental Repasts’.
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary