Karel Čapek,
Letters from England — Edinburgh
(1925)
“ It is a province, but a monumental one; a poorer land, but a sturdy one; a russet and angular type of people, but the girls are prettier than down in England; beautiful and dirty-nosed children, a life ample and jolly in spite of all Calvinism. ”
Karel Čapek,
Letters from England — Edinburgh
(1925)
“ Such a thing exists nowhere in the world except at Edinburgh. And the city is situated on hills; you are hurrying along somewhere or other, and all at once beneath your feet have a deep green chasm with a fine you river below ”
Karel Čapek,
Letters from England — Edinburgh
(1925)
“ Where in other cities a river flows, there a railway runs; on one side is the old town, on the other side the new one, with streets wider than any where else, every vista showing a statue or a church; and in the old town the houses are appallingly high, a thing which exists no where in England, and the washing is flaunted upon clothes-lines above the streets like the flags of all nations—and this also does not exist down in England; and there are dirty, red-headed children in the streets—this also does not exist down in England ”
