August in Genoa

One of the effects of following Dickens' Italian tour in real-time is that it makes the pacing of his tour that much more noticeable; in particular how much things have slowed down since arriving in Genoa in late July. After the hustle and bustle of the journey down, with what seemed like a new destination...

Friday 5 July 1844: Paris?

Are we there yet? We know Dickens left England on 2 July, and we surmise from contemporary popular routes that he would have travelled from Boulougne through Abbeville and Beauvais to Paris. We can glean further details from a letter dated 7th August to 1844 to the Count D'Orsay, in which Dickens says: We had...