| Description | In this address Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury explores the subject of holidays, suggesting that a 'change of occupation' and 'change of scene' often served to restore 'tired faculties and rusty energies'. She begins her address by commenting on her enjoyment of long railway journeys which she suggests were 'tinged with light from the holiday halo', remarking on how 'our mode of life changes' whilst on holiday.
Taylor Cadbury provides an entertaining account of Cadbury family holidays in Bordighera in Italy. She refers to the growing popularity of Bordighera which had recently become more 'fashionable' following the building of a casino. She includes an amusing story about the Italian chef at the villa where the Cadbury family stayed who had baked ham into their jam sponge. Taylor Cadbury remarks that 'the real recreation & true enjoyment, comes from the charm of the place itself, and the Italian atmosphere'. She concludes her address with remarks on Italian history and the country's struggle for freedom, adding 'the truest recreation after all is to enter into sympathy with the aspirations of the past and the present.'
Two copies of this address are featured here. A typewritten copy of this address is attached after the handwritten copy. |