Hotel zum Erbprinzen

… after a little difficulty we got some tolerable beds at the Erbprinz and slept away our fatigue by 9 o’clock.
– from George Eliot’s Journal



















Audio comment by Bob Muscutt and reading from George Eliot’s Journal, by Margot Erbslöh

We used to dine at the Erb-prinz for 10 groschen each, and a very good dinner we generally had.
– from George Eliot, Recollections of Weimar

shop window: Genuine Thuringian Meat and Sausages

I fancy raw ham and sausage are the basis of the national food with a copious substratum of Blaukraut, Sauerkraut and black bread. Sausage seems to the German what potatoes were to the Irish – the sine quâ non of bodily sustenance.
– from George Eliot, Recollections of Weimar





Reading by Margot Erbslöh, from George Eliot, ’Recollections of Weimar’, enhanced with vignettes from the famous Henriette Davidis Cookery Book – the German equivalent to Isabella Beeton’s.

Reading from letter by Robert Scott Tait to George Combe, by and with Phil New.