Lands of summer; . From Athens to Corjii I Before journeying for the first timeinto a strange land, one naturally seeks theadvice of more experienced travellers, espe-cially if that be unencumbered by any obli-gation to follow it. In girding ourselves forGreece^ therefore, we took counsel, not ofone but of many; and the many minds we 39 Lands of Summer met left us in a state of more than commonbewilderment. All roads led to Athens, but,out of it, opinions concerning them con-flicted hopelessly. Spots on the one hand sodifficult of access as really to be not worthwhile, on the other were of gre
Lands of summer; . From Athens to Corjii I Before journeying for the first timeinto a strange land, one naturally seeks theadvice of more experienced travellers, espe-cially if that be unencumbered by any obli-gation to follow it. In girding ourselves forGreece^ therefore, we took counsel, not ofone but of many; and the many minds we 39 Lands of Summer met left us in a state of more than commonbewilderment. All roads led to Athens, but,out of it, opinions concerning them con-flicted hopelessly. Spots on the one hand sodifficult of access as really to be not worthwhile, on the other were of great impor-tance and the easiest to reach. Improveditineraries cropped up continually, overshad-owing the old familiar ones. And, strangelyenough, all the irreconcilable statementswere true, or had been true at the momentof experience. The fact being that the landchanges hourly with new railways and steam-ship lines, new excavations and new hotelsto match, so that the Greece of five yearsago is not modern Greece at a
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