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Roald Dahl

Grand Tour Travel there are surprising stories and"Know'st thou the land where lemon trees do bloom, and oranges like gold in leafy gloom . . . ." In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a journey to Italy was considered an indispensable part of a young man's education. On arduous coach journeys, they pursued the trail of ancient Rome and the Renaissance to Florence, Venice, Rome, and Naples. Artists soon followed them, and thus yearning also led Johann Wolfgang von Goethe south from 1786 to