Show Walt Daniels Tells of Journey Through Europe Past Summer Walt Daniels fOI r Kamas music instructor and a former Summit County Commissioner loner took his wife and family on a atour atour atour tour of Europe this summer The following story tells In detail of the trip Sees th the Midwest We left Kamas on or the morning of June 8 and took a bus out of Salt Lake City We thought a bus much better because of its sight seeing potential as compared I We crossed with train or plane I Colorado thru Loveland pats pass in snow banks as high as the- the thebus bus bust then out onto the plains of ot Kansas where everything was green Then through Missouri Illinois Indiana and Ohio everything was still sUIl green and a bit more wooded After several hours stop at Pittsburgh we went on to Washington Wash ington DC D.C. where we spent two days Here Mere we visited the WhiteHouse WhiteHouse White WhiteHouse House Washington Monument Smithsonian Institute the capital building and the Arlington National National National Na Na- Cemetery Another five five- hour bus trip and we were in New York City for another two days daS to take In the sights Board Ship At 11 am a.m. on the morning of North June 15 we boarded the German Lloyd liner Berlin Tugboats Tug Tugboats Tugboats boats pu pushed hed us from the docks and down the Hudson River alongI along I the New York Sky Skyline tine and past the Statue of Liberty Here our ton liner started its own engines and we were on our way to a a. day 10 crossing ot of the Atlan Atlan- tic These 10 days were very enjoyable because these big ships leave no stone unturned in their effort to make their crossings as sa enjoyable and pleasant as they can for the p passengers Deck sports swimming parties dancing i and just plain being lazy All AU I this with the excellent menu that I was served up three or four times each day was fine for everything except the waistline Plane Piano Down in We docked at Southampton England on the morning of June 2 2 took a boat train to London and several hours later boarded a plane for Paris Over the English Eng Eng- lish Ush Channel cur plane developed motor trouble One motor stopped and of course I was never sure In Ply oWn own mind when the other motor might stop We made our way back over England and landed land land- In a cow cov pasture ed ej P a tl tn lu w We Ve e eair were w t iii-t vw un air field where we were told lold another another an an- other plane would pick us up I had trouble convincing my wife and the kids that hat we should get getan geton geton on an on the se second ond plane I 1 guess guess- my trouble was that I was not con myself The second plane did a better job and we WO landed about CO O miles JUlles north of Paris Earls where a a. bus took us into the theS S city Instead of arriving at 8 pm p.m. we arrived at midnight For three days In Paris FarLs we had hada a nice hotel on the Plaze Opera an and t saw laW what we could of the city We visited such places as the Af de ae Eiffel Tow er Napoleons Napoleon's Tomb the Louvre Notre Dime Cathedral and the Palaces at Versailles Oay Gay Parco larco Parts Parl is Ls a beautiful city cUy but the crazy traffic is quite another thing I suppose we just j never did develop quite the confidence wp we should have done In the French taxi cab driver Although we were fortunate enough not to be In an accident nt it always appeared that one was Just jU t about to happen Paris traffic is very very similar to that of Mexico City We boarded a train in Paris i I and went to Stuttgart In Germany I where we picked up the automobile automo- automo bile we had ordered eight months I Our Mercedes Benz DIesel Diesel Diesel Die DIe- sel has p performed in every way Just as we expected it to We Wew w were re always able to buy Diesel oil although the prices in Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- I rope were higher About 50 cents American money for Diesel and and about 80 cents cent for Gasoline That accounts for the reason that all cars in Europe are small ones that provide good mileage i I i We drove through the German Black Forest and Into Switzerland I j I at Basel on the Rhine River In Basel we visited with Gay Holt bit from Kamas who is on an mission there Then at Zurich we visited Betty Detty a aI former Kamas resident I The Alps It is hard to find words to deScribe describe de de- scribe Switzerland In the summer time Everything green homes and fields well kept flower lower boxes In all aU windows beautiful blue lakes and towering mountain peaks covered with snow The Theland Theland Theland land Is farmed as far up the mountain as the grass gram will grow and that is to the timber line Houses perched all aU over the mountain sides Every Everyone one working work ing and friendly but always ready to tell teU an American that there are a few things wrong with Am Am- erica arica The mountains of Switzerland are not as high as some come of our mountains but they seem to be bemore bemore more rugged Like our In I many places A side trip from front the city of Visp up the narrow gauge railway to the town of I Zermatt is well worth the time I Zermatt has no O automobiles only horse drawn vehicles and bikes The great tourist attraction of ot course Is the That fiat rugged peak partly snow covered resembles In shape a great tooth Many 1 climbers have come to their death in trying to climb to la its summit The automobile road over the Furka and St. St Passes climbs from country of ofIes Ies less than 1000 feet el elevation to about the foot toot mark as it passes the Rhone Glacier Into Austria We passed through the of Lichtenstein Liechtenstein a country about two miles by five miles mlles Ith It Itis Itis is h located on the Swiss Austrian border birder and anti its chief source of In come seems to be in selling their postage stam stamps to tourists One must muss wait Walt in long lines in order to buy stamps that are always in great demand by stamp collectors We crossed Austria from front west to each Their mountains and valleys resemble those of Switzer land A At one place a little piece of Germany juts down into Aus Ant tria and the chief thief city in this German place Is U Berchtesgaden We of at course remembered it be- be Continued on Pap Page Five Daniels Trip Continued from Page One cause ca Hitler had a summer home there but it tt Is truly the most beautiful place I have ever seen Its scenery Is very hard to de I burg Is the home cf cr t fc te gre great t composer Mozart and we enjoyed song fong through his home We followed down the th Danube Volley to Vienna This city was once Onte the world center for tor gaiety tc ence medicine finance and the He art arts but no more Its Us history his his- tory tort and museums that depict Ha Its gnat t past last ate are now Its Us greatest assets Moving southward into Italy We left lell the mountains and came nto the Po Valley where the best par cf of f I agriculture exists A broad brond new highway now hOW leads to the city of Venice once reach ed only by train or motor boat All cars must stop stol at the out tk ris however where parking has been d. d fh It is slI sIll one of of canals canals an I Tourists were ere thick In the I square quare of San Marco and at the j I Tower of Venice while gondoliers do da a 1 lively rowing people around the canals I We drove down the east Italian m mc const c c along the Adriatic Sea to San Marino and the city of Rim Iti San Marino like stein a s a very small country and thrives shrives only on tourists Roman Empire We crossed the to tor r m where traffic wise we were n In n for another shock The Italian ItalianI I I motorist Is convinced that all tr traffic troubles cm can be solved by honking the horn In most EuI Eu Eu- I I n cities however ho horn blowing blowIng blowIng blow- blow Ing Is prohibited but there Is in no I rule against It outside the cities Also Aso In most matt cities headlights are not allowed at night You must drive w th parking lights only i Italy Itay is rich In its historic past and the beauty of its scenery Everywhere Ev- Ev I I is evidence of the glory of the Roman Empire of 2000 I I years ago We visited St St. Peters I IThe I The Catacombs the I and several of the churches that were much older than St St. Peters The north of Italy Itay is la industrially ally booming its agriculture is doing fine but in the south of Italy Itay poverty of backwardness is evident Oxen and donkeys are used in the fields and for means of transportation In Naples we saw the only signa signs that urged people to vote Communistic We visited Pompeii at the foot of Mt drove through Sorrento Sorrento Sorrento Sor Sor- rento and over the Amalfa Drive to the new city of Salerno New because the old city was blown froth from the f face ce of the earth by the Americans when they landed there in World War II All buildIngs buildIngs buildings build build- ings are new even the Monas- Monas tary at the top ot of the hill bill that was used as a Germans Moving back into Northern Italy w we visited the art center of Florence which was beautiful and clean unlike the cities of th the south The architect t who vho blundered 1 I ered with his tower at Piza many hundred years ago did not know V that he was assuring the economic future of his city Tourists by the thousands pay to climb cUmb the Ithe spiral spira stairs to the top of the leaning tower and stand on the spot where Gallello made his experiments with gravity The scenery along the Italian and French Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean coasts Is beautiful All commercialized with big hotels where its ideal winter climate and cool summer breezes are a continual attraction for tourists In almost every harbor the United United Uni Uni- ted States Navy was well represented represented with all kinds of vessels from tram destroyers destroyer to Aircraft ear Car US U.S. sailors were every every- where Through Battlefields 1 We drove northward through the Rhone V Valley back to Parts Parla then eastward through battlefields battlefields battle battle- fields of both World Wars In the Bastogne area of eastern astern Belgium the crowds were oo GO thick k in the center of one oM small mall town that W we were forced to wait walt until they cleared out We found that they were waiting to greet King Leopold Leopold Leo and his queen This turned out to be an unexpected glimpse ot of royalty Later we visited the American Memorial Cemetery at Luxembourg where we saw the grave of ot Willis A A. A Jensen one of my former students at South Sum mit High School Going back into Germany again we followed the Mozel Maze River from Trier to Koblenz Koblenz Koblenz Kob Kob- lenz where It joins the Rhein River Along this river the hill hlll side are all terraced and planted panted to grapes The river Is very wind winding ing lag and towns located all along its 1113 banks but the city tot t f Cochem with Its ita oldCastle old Castle makes a beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- picture The river Is wide and barges travel ve almost Its full length Many Matly years ago the RheIn as aas as the beauty spot with its Grape but now Industry and Auto Bahns or Freeways have taken over but the Mozel Maze still has all the charm and beauty of the old Rhein I II I 1 I The concentrated Industry along along a a- long the lower RheIn is the cen cen- center center ter of af what we now call the European Eu Common Market Everyone Everyone Every Every- Everyone one is working business s is boomIng boomIng booming boom- boom I I Ing and Europe Is making terrific gains in the manufacture of many I I goods that we have always taken I for granted to be made only in America America North Germany is devoted devoted devoted de de- voted almost entirely to agriculture agriculture agri- agri culture however their two large seaports of Bremen and Hamburg keep German goods flowing to all I parts parts of the world I I Denmark Beautiful I For two days days' In Denmark the weather was nice The homes homes' looked more sturdy the towns I looked more like those in America AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica and here for the first time nearly everyone we met could speak some English They were very modest In declaring their ability to speak English however they could make themselves understood understood understood un un- very well All lawns lawna were neat with many flowers Most of ot the homes were built of red brick We ferried from Jutland Jutland Jut Jut- land to Odense then over to Copenhagen Island The city of Copenhagen was WIlS a very delightful place We visited the Government building the palace some of their old churches and the big park known as Tivoli Tivoli Park was somewhat similar to American parks There was an entry admix admix- sion sian but the type of ot entertainment entertain ment was high class Very little in the line of rides or conces conces- Their boys band was better than any I have he heard rd in Ameri Amer- American lIl rl can high schools and I would judge the ages of the boys boS were from 9 to 15 Their leader was aboy a aboy aboy boy of 1 18 The big difference I had to conclude was that each of these boys would make band worK and music their lifes life's work We took a boat from Elsinore in Denmark to Hel In Sweden Here we got got our first taste of driving on the left lett side of the road An American motorIst motorist motor motor- 1st cannot afford to let his mind wander for one second In many places In Europe the car on the right side always has the right of way and even coming onto a through highway a car does Tnt riot lute e to t slug La lJ Ia bas Lu tits 1 1111 cf rf way Tie Tue same sahle thin was wu true in Sweden only everything was turned around on the left side I MO Most t European drivers were tolerant tolerant tol tol- and considerate of foreign drivers They would spot my German International plates and immediately know I was an American I was never sure that they gave me plenty of room I i through courtesy y ar or fear of anI an I American driver We Ve drove miles mUes north up thO th the west coast of ot Sweden to Halden and Oslo in Norway Sweden homes and cities clUes looked the most most prosperous of ot any we saw Their standard of at living Is certainly equal to ours and I am to that sorry ay gay ally in Northern Europe and vla their civic pride I surpasses ours N No Unsightly weed I patches or buildings that are ready to fall down I Meets Missionary In Halden Haden Norway we had anice a anice anice nice visit with Elder Jack Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son from Kamas H He I was happy to see some one from tram home We did not have to talk with him long before we learned that he surely did like his work and that he and his companions were ere doing a very fine job They escorted us on a trip trip around the city of Halden and through one of Europe's I only t L i. i Atomic Experiment plants Wo We I If found the long days up here still f slight light at 11 pm p.m. and sun up next next morning at 3 am a.m. Oslo was somewhat someI some- some I I what dead everyone goes on their I holiday at the same time The I woods were full of vacationers and the cities almost empty From Norway we retraced our steps until we got back ack to U Hamburg in Germany then went west into Holland We entered the country east of ot Groningen and drove along its north coast Leeuwarden where the new Dike separates the old Zee from the North Sea They are gradually draining the Zee and reclaiming it for farm land while the dike holds holda out the North Sea which is much higher than the land being drain drain- ed We drove for 20 or 30 miles across this dike until we came to the city of Alkmaar We liked this town Many Mahy of at its people I were In native dress with wooden wOOllen shoes etc I Its Ita open market was I very tery Interesting We spent part of I I a n day In Am Amsterdam We could easily have spent more time but v no now time was WI growing limited Amsterdam has more canals than I Venice and their canals are all |