A LITTLE-KNOWN ALPINE RESORT
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
IR,—For many years British people from all parts of the Empire have known of Leysin and gone there to enjoy its quiet seclusion and to obtain a new lease of life, but com- paratively few of the sufferers in our own mist-bound island have ever even heard its name. It is just a little beyond Lake Geneva, 3,000 feet above Aigle, with nearly twenty miles stretch of the Rhone Valley lying at its feet. It is• One of the most sheltered and sunny spots in Alpine Switzerland. Often during the winter months it looks down upon a dazzling sea of cloud, while above the sky is of the deepest blue.
The Swiss themselves fully realize the advantages of the place, for they have there a sanatorcum entirely for University students, as well as two others for the Cantons of Vaud and Neuchatel. And yet but few people of our land are aware of the special advantages it offers to those suffering from lung trouble, although we in England have a death roll of 40,000 every year due to the tubercular scourge. Its three palatial sanatoria are run more or less on hotel lines, the well-and- strong living happily along with their patient " friends, and finding ample recreation in the winter sports of skating, ski-ing, and tobogganing.
The chief charm of the place, perhaps, is its restfulness, and sometimes people go for nothing more serious than for a rest cure, and they find there, what few places can offer nowadays, a complete freedom from all the rush and noise and distractions of modern life.—! am, Sir, &e., ONE WHO HAS BENEFITED.
Previous page
