Journey to Germany on school exchange
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Journey to Germany on school exchange
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Letter from Reg to his mother describing his journey by boat and train to stay with his exchange partner, Schaeffer, in Cologne.
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EMuirRWLMuirPE37XXXX-01
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Dear Mum,
I am in the train on the way to Cologne. We reached Dover 11.30. The ship left Dover for Ostend 11.45. We reached Ostend 4.0. We had to go through the Customs. I was [underlined] not [/underlined] seasick. We left for Cologne at 5.5. I had a terrible headache on the way to [deleted] Cologne [/deleted] Dover. It is a terrible long way to Cologne. It is 9.15 now. We have been traveling for 4 1/4 hrs. & we still have another 2 hrs journey. It was a very nice trip on the sea. There was not much wind. We stopped at Brussells. Very big station. We went non-stop Victoria to Dover. It is very strange. I am going to live with Schaeffer. He is a very nice fellow As I am writing I am on the borders of Germany. When I got off at Ostend I could hardly walk
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I basked in the sun & slept in a bunk on the ship. Train journeys are very tiresome. Belgian train seats are made of wood. The[deleted]ir[/deleted] trains go very fast. I have an headache & am very tired. Ostend is a very nice sea-side resort. I saw some German Anti-Aircraft men in uniform. You should have given me much more to eat. While it was light the train journey was nice. Belgium is very flat. Give my best wishes to Dad & the kids. I feel like Hellmunt when he first came to England. Very lonely in a strange land,
Your loving son.
Reg
I am in the train on the way to Cologne. We reached Dover 11.30. The ship left Dover for Ostend 11.45. We reached Ostend 4.0. We had to go through the Customs. I was [underlined] not [/underlined] seasick. We left for Cologne at 5.5. I had a terrible headache on the way to [deleted] Cologne [/deleted] Dover. It is a terrible long way to Cologne. It is 9.15 now. We have been traveling for 4 1/4 hrs. & we still have another 2 hrs journey. It was a very nice trip on the sea. There was not much wind. We stopped at Brussells. Very big station. We went non-stop Victoria to Dover. It is very strange. I am going to live with Schaeffer. He is a very nice fellow As I am writing I am on the borders of Germany. When I got off at Ostend I could hardly walk
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I basked in the sun & slept in a bunk on the ship. Train journeys are very tiresome. Belgian train seats are made of wood. The[deleted]ir[/deleted] trains go very fast. I have an headache & am very tired. Ostend is a very nice sea-side resort. I saw some German Anti-Aircraft men in uniform. You should have given me much more to eat. While it was light the train journey was nice. Belgium is very flat. Give my best wishes to Dad & the kids. I feel like Hellmunt when he first came to England. Very lonely in a strange land,
Your loving son.
Reg
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Reginald William Lingfield Muir, “Journey to Germany on school exchange,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed May 17, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/42560.
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