Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 157
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[Page 157]
1918
Thu. 4th Apl. (cont.)
We followed this with coffee and beer in the 1st class Restaurant; a huge gaudy place with much marone draping and nothing to eat on sale. En passant – half of the Bahnhof is in ruins. A plane bomb dropped here during a recent air raid. At 2.30 pm we left for Heidelberg. Outside Darmstadt I got my first view of camouflage. – a Zeppelin hangar with fields and red-roofed cottages apparently sprouting from the roof.
Store, troop, gun, & gas trains are all rushing South.
We are now in Baden – a beautiful province.
Dozens of castles dotting hills here and there with little villages straggling down from the castle walls – the country is dotted and avenued with blossoming fruit-trees, and the clumsy farm carts are drawn by a magnificent breed of white oxen.