Easter Travel Notes
IOLIDAY-MAKERS at Eastertide throng to the coastal resorts, ut so much because the sea is any more inviting than the .ountry at this time of year, but because our watering-places iv themselves out to make the short Easter holiday a gay ime for visitors. On the South Coast, resorts like Brighton, 'lsthourne, Folkestone, and - Bournemouth offer almost he full programme of summer attractions. The local theatre sually opens the season by staging a play that has not so far een seen in London, gala dance nights are arranged in the ails, the band starts to play on the promenade, and the f club generally has some special trophy to be competed r by visitors.
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At Bournemouth, the new Meyrick Park Links in the centre of the town are a pleasure to play over. There is also the Queen's Park course on the Boscombe side, and five other courses are in the neighbourhood. In the Winter Gardens, lie permanent Municipal Orchestra, under the direction of Sir Dan Godfrey, will play daily. The Southern Railway will be competing with car travel by running regular corridor and restaurant expresses, which reach Bournemouth from Waterloo in a little over two hours, while the L.M.S. will be running through connexions to Bournemouth from the main Midland centres.
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Places like Bognor, which a few years- ago made only small preparation for the reception of guests at Easter, are making themselves attractive this year. Some special competitions are being held at the Bognor Golf Club ; there will be subscription mees at the Pavilion Gardens, which are owned by the
Urban District Council, and , the theatre will also bo open.
British spas must on the whole be recognized to-day as popular places of attraction as well as health resorts. Harro- gate and Bath, above all, offer as many facilities for amuse- ment, particularly at Easter, as the chief seaside towns. While rail travellers can reach these and other spas by special daily expresses from all large cities in a few hours, motorists in fully half a dozen western counties will find Bath easily accessible, and Harrogate is no distance by car from the many industrial centres of Lancashire and Yorkshire. All roads leading to both these towns are now in perfect condition.
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Motorists who intend adopting the holiday tour across Wales suggested in ".another article will find pleasant diversion from motoring by paying a visit to the Royal St. David's Golf Course, one of the finest championship links in the country, on the edge of Cardigan Bay below the town of Harlech. Special Easter attractions are being offered. here and also at the big St. David's Hotel, which is just by the sixteenth green of the course. The opportunity may also present itself of a stay in Llanberis—actually on the route mapped out—for it is now certain that the train service on the Snowdon Mountain Railway will be running at Easter. The ascent to the summit is perfectly safe and overlooks very wonderful scenery. The curves of the rail-line are moderate, and the sharpest ascent has a onc-in-five, gradient, which is less than gradients in the Alps. The return fare, to and front Llanberis, is eight shillings.
THE MOTORING EDITOR.
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