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Hemingway Adventure
Chapter 2: Italy
Ernest Hemingway had first set foot on foreign soil at Bordeaux, France on 1 June 1918.He had been accepted as a volunteer driver for the American Red Cross Ambulance Service on the Austro-Italian front line.
After a few days in Paris, sampling cultural delights like the Folies Bergère, he and his fellow volunteers took the overnight Paris-Lyon Méditerranée Express, across the French Alps and through the Fréjus tunnel to Milan.
His train steamed into Garibaldi Station on the morning of 7 June 1918.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Hemingway Adventure
- Chapter: Chapter 2: Italy
- Country/sea: Italy
- Place: Milan
- Book page no: 43
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