Item 02: Leslie Kemnitz Stuart diary, 4 March-28 December 1916 - Page 92
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[Page 92]
[Thursday 23 March]
We moved in to the wharf at about 6 A.M. The scenery here is very beautiful. Around Marseilles [Marseille], the coastline is very bold & rugged. We saw trees, that have not been planted, growing about the hills for the first time since leaving Gallipoli.
The French people seem very apathetic here, the lack of enthusiasm is very noticable. I think that many of the people have all their men folk away fighting & that, I think, accounts for a great deal of the depression.
My French is very "Patchy" but I have succeeded in making myself understood somehow or other.
Left Marseilles [Marseille] at 2.30 p.m. through glorious mountain scenery & going right round the shores of the bay. I rode on the roof of the carriage for a couple of hours. we passed through a tunnel which took a quarter of an hour to get through
The scenery will do me, & the people are first class, they are kindhearted & go mad over us.