1936 On the Continent

mountain resorts, may travel free on the return journey through Jugoslav territory.
    Parties travelling together enjoy a reduction ranging from 20 to 40 per cent., according to the size of the party and the distance travelled.
    Students travelling in parties of at least ten enjoy a reduction of 50 per cent. provided the distance travelled is over 151 kilometres.
    Married couples starting their journey within fourteen days after their wedding enjoy a reduction of 50 per cent. on the normal fare up till one month after the wedding.
HOW TO SEE JUGOSLAVIA
    Tourists going to Jugoslavia will be able to obtain all necessary information from the Tourist Section of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Beograd, or from the official travel bureau, Putnik, Beograd, Terazije 10.
    The Putnik Association, established for the promotion of tourist traffic, is composed of representatives of the Ministries of Transport and Commerce and other bodies concerned in the development of tourist traffic.
    The Putnik Association has branches in all important towns.
    Requests for information and complaints of inexactitude, faults of organisation, etc., should be addressed to the Putnik Head Office in Beograd.
    The addresses of the Jugoslav Tourist Offices abroad are as follows—London: 25, Cockspur Street, S.W.1; Vienna: Augustinerstrasse 3, Vienna I; Praha: Vaclavske Namesti 60 (Palace Phoenix); Salonica: Rue Venizelos 14.
    Putnik also has close business relations with all the important travel agencies in Europe, such as Thos. Cook & Sons Ltd., the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, American Express Company Inc., Dean & Dawson, etc., which will gladly supply travellers with all necessary information, work out itineraries, etc.
COME TO JUGOSLAVIA
    A stay in this beautiful country will be an unforgettable experience. You will enjoy a Perfect Holiday in Jugoslavia.
    The Putnik offices will give you all necessary information and will arrange your journey to and your stay in Jugoslavia at a minimum cost.
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BULGARIA
    T HE English have long ceased to be interested in “what Gladstone said in 1876” or at any other time. But we Bulgarians still remember that great British statesman with gratitude and reverence, for he contributed very largely to the liberation of our country in the above-mentioned year.
    Another Englishman whose name we revere, and to whom we have raised a memorial, was the British Consul Boucher, who saved Bulgaria from injustice after the Great War.
    There have been many other great Englishmen who have helped Bulgaria in time of trouble, but the two examples given here ought to be sufficient to indicate the nature of the welcome that awaits any British visitor in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian people are traditionally hospitable, but when the visitor is English! … Nothing is too good for him or her. Bulgaria is not one of the tourist countries, and it may look—and above all, sound—strange to the English traveller, yet he will certainly feel at home if the admiration and affection of a whole race can make him so.
Romantic Approaches
    I have said that Bulgaria is not a tourist country. That is only true in the sense that it is not visited by so many foreigners as, for instance, Switzerland. Otherwise Bulgaria is the country for the tourist, ideal in every sense for the traveller who seeks strikingly beautiful new surroundings combined with picturesqueness and opportunities for sport and amusement.
    It is possible to reach Bulgaria by various routes, some of them ordinary, others almost romantic. We shall deal with the romantic approaches to our country.
    You can take one of the two express boats that sail from Vienna each week down the Danube for the river port of Russe. The journey takes seven days and the scenery through which the boat passes can only be described as heavenly, particularly from Orsova, a few hour’s journey from the Bulgarian frontier. The Iron Gate, near Orsova, is one of the most beautiful and majestic gorges in thewhole world. Here the Danube is really blue, and continues so through lovely country on the northern border of Bulgaria to Russe.
    Russe, the biggest Bulgarian river port, is also one of the largest towns in the country. It is distinguished by the fact that it has a vast number of beautiful gardens, both public and private, and the visitor might do worse than stay at Russe for a day or so before proceeding to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, by train.
    Another interesting method of