Diary of Phyllis Bethel of Topsham Devon

An account of her travels with her husband and her daughter Marion from Wiesbaden in Germany and the Second World war in Topsham Devon as written in her diaries between 1929 and 1953.

3rd August 1933


Off on a summer holiday to Black Forest, Schonrnuuzach. At hotel there are twenty children, Baby's great friend is Alice, a little German girl living in Rotterdam. There is a swimming pool in front of hotel and the guests tumble in and out of it all day long. We take Baby in red bathing suit, to paddle in river that runs in front of the hotel. One day we took an omnibus excursion, 6 hours to Mummelsee. Another day we went by train to Freudenstadt, then again took a long drive through the woods to a lake high up on one of the many surrounding hills. The children loved going to see a tiny rabbit which had escaped the scythe when the grass in fields was cut down and which one of the maids had brought to the hotel. We also often fed the 3 cows and one calf.

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