18 MAY 1951, Page 20

COUNTRY LIFE

ONE of the greatest pleasures of holidays is coming home again. Ali -r a more than usually sordid experience of the Channel crossing and passage through the Customs, I found my nervous temper soothed the drive fcpm Dover through the familiar by-roads. Even the Tusk. of and Umbrian scene, with its towns that are the pressed flowers oft mediaowal and Renaissance garden of Europe, lacks something our lanes, fields and copses possess.