Patronised by the patrician holiday-makers of ancient Rome, and rediscovered to-day by the cosmopolitan tourist, this lovely island, or. rather group, lies in the northern Adriatic, just off Polo. Whether' or not it i8 due to the visibility and clarity of the Italian atmosphere or just one's imagination it is difficult to say, but on approaching Brioni its trees somehow look greener, its sands more golden, and the ripples that, dance into ity baby bays bluer' than those seen elsewhere. At the island itself, the bays, or the Strait di Fasana—the waterway between Brioni and the mainland, while some of the shovt holes are' so tricky that the golfer must limit his view to his ball and the pin on the next green, 'A Variety Programme Brioni is not one of those places where a man complains he" has nothing to do, Motor cars, it is true, are not permitted on the land, but at the village of Fasana, just opposite, which is reached by, motor boat in fifteen minutes, there ood garage Where touring cars obtainable, and where one may keep one's own. Fasana is a splendid centre; it lies midway between Venice and Fiume and on the way from Trieste to Dalmatia, Brioni is the only place in Italy where polo is played. The polo club has many British members, and new players are always welcomed.
The island abounds in ga when. the seaton opens shooting is free to visitor: ers from catarrh and gout find it fan excellent plage in. which to con valence; oxygen baths, ultra violet ud inhalation apparatus are available for them, and arrange= ments for the treatment of other fist glimpse of its varied and fant-|Uisorders. are under contemplation, the shimmering Naturally, in a place of small noonday sunshine it seems as if dimensions, the accommodation) 1s goddess, floating above on an Olympic cloud, had flung down her scarf fof green' and gold just anyhow on the turquoise blue floor of the Ad-and, being too imperious—or ick it up, had willed it] to materialise and become Brioni. limited, soit is becoming more and more a wise precaution to, book it as long as possible in advance.
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