One of the walks alongside the Eger takes one down-stream to the small village of Dallwitz, and there in a little park of a chateau is to be found a majestic oak, one of those made famous by the poet Drei Eichen, Korner. Also in the park is the Restau- Dallwitz rant Drei Eichen, where there is quite a large dining-room and the usual little tables outside under the trees. Do not be led by Baedeker’s account of a charming little lake to go in search of it. Two ponds just outside the restaurant gates are the only sheets of water you will find. The pleasantest, perhaps, of all the sylvan restau- _ rants within walking distance of Hans ei mg Carlsbad is the Hans Heiling one where the Eger runs through a rocky gorge. The (tAu stria 335 restaurant with its terrace and many tables looks quite picturesque and in keeping with its surround- ings, and one lunches within a biscuit-throw of the river, and with the sound of the rapids as an accom- paniment. The village and mineral water establishment at Giesshubel in the valley of the Eger is almost beyond walking distance, though it is quite a pleasant day’s outing to go there by 16SS U 6 public coach in the morning and to walk back in the cool of the afternoon. The establishment has a restaurant where very much the same food as is to be found in the Carlsbad restaurants is ready for visitors at remarkably cheap rates. A most benevolent old manager is in charge of this part of the establishment. There is a pretty little park in which to stroll after lunch, and on the hillside is the spring which supplies the well-known table water. You may see it bubble up in a basin of marble covered by a curve of crystal. A pleasant drive’s distance from Carlsbad is Elbogen, a mediaeval town and castle high on a rocky knoll looped by the river. At the hotel in the market- place there is a charming terrace, parti- ally roofed over, from which there is a fine view of the gorge of the river where it makes one of its hairpin "turns. The food is simple and the service elementary, but the situation and surroundings make the terrace of the Elbogen inn a notable lunching place. At Eger, which forms a point for a train excursion from Carlsbad, the restaurant at the station is the best feeding place of the town. A portion of the platform is railed off before the restaurant, and in this enclosure one can sit and lunch or dine and watch all the bustle and the coming and going of the trains, 336 Tdhe Gourmet's Guide to Europe The Carlsbad Clubs If there is any social club in Carlsbad I never heard of it, and I am sure the doctors would order their patients not to belong to it, as club life would keep them out of the open air. The nearest approach- to such a club that I know of is the reading-room of the Kurhaus, where for a daily or weekly or monthly subscription you can look at the papers of all the civilised countries. There is a sports association with sub-divisions into golfing and lawn-tennis and shooting and winter sports clubs. The golf links and their pavilion lie up the valley just beyond the Kaiser Park Cafe. There are tennis-courts in several parts of Carlsbad. The courts which are between the Freundschaf Saal and the Kaiser Park are those on which the tourna- ments are played. The new Kurhaus, however, now being built, may have its club surprises for the visitors. AFTER DINNER

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One of the walks alongside the Eger takes one down-stream to the small village of Dallwitz, and there in a little park of a chateau is to be found a majestic oak, one of those made famous by the poet Körner. Also in the park is the Restaurant Drei Eichen, where there is quite a large dining-room and the usual little tables outside under the trees. Do not be led by Baedeker’s account of a charming little lake to go in search of it. Two ponds just outside the restaurant gates are the only sheets of water you will find. The pleaThe pleasantest, perhaps, of all the sylvan restaurants within walking distance of Carlsbad is the Hans Heiling one where the Eger runs through a rocky gorge. The restaurant with its terrace and many tables looks quite picturesque and in keeping with its surroundings, and one lunches within a biscuit-throw of the river, and with the sound of the rapids as an accompaniment. The village and mineral water establishment at Giesshübel in the valley of the Eger is almost beyond walking distance, though it is quite a pleasant day's outing to go there by public coachpublic coach in the morning and to walk back in the cool of the afternoon. The establishment has a restaurant where very much the same food as is to be found in the Carlsbad restaurants is ready for visitors at remarkably cheap rates. A most benevolent old manager is in charge of this part of the establishment. There is a pretty little park in which to stroll after lunch, and on the hillside is the spring which supplies the well-known table water. You may see it bubble up in a basin of marble covered by a curve of crystal. A pleasant drive’s distance from Carlsbad is Elbogen, a mediaeval town and castle high on a rocky knoll looped by the river. At the hotel in the marketplace there is a charming terrace, partially roofed over, from which there is a fine view of the gorge of the river where it makes one of its hairpin "turns. The food is simple and the service elementary, but the situation and surroundings make the terrace of the Elbogen inn a notable lunching place. At Eger, which forms a point for a train excursion from Carlsbad, the restaurant at the station is the best feeding place of the town. A portion of the platform is railed off before the restaurant, and in this enclosure one can sit and lunch or dine and watch all the bustle and the coming and going of the trains, 336 Tdhe Gourmet's Guide to Europe The Carlsbad Clubs If there is any social club in Carlsbad I never heard of it, and I am sure the doctors would order their patients not to belong to it, as club life would keep them out of the open air. The nearest approachto such a club that I know of is the reading-room of the Kurhaus, where for a daily or weekly or monthly subscription you can look at the papers of all the civilised countries. There is a sports association with sub-divisions into golfing and lawn-tennis and shooting and winter sports clubs. The golf links and their pavilion lie up the valley just beyond the Kaiser Park Cafe. There are tennis-courts in several parts of Carlsbad. The courts which are between the Freundschaf Saal and the Kaiser Park are those on which the tournaments are played. The new Kurhaus, however, now being built, may have its club surprises for the visitors.

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