Moscow Cafe Crawl

This from an old travelogue I read recently. This happened while the author was passing through a village in Switzerland in the early 1900s.

In his shoes, I would have done the same!

I also asked him for coffee, and as he refused it I took him to be a heretic and went down the road making up verses against all such, and singing them loudly through the forest…

-Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome, p.164

Filed under: Uncategorized on July 12th, 2010