Audio Comment by Bob Muscutt.
About ten days after our arrival we made an excursion to Ettersburg, one of the Duke’s summer residences. ... The morning was one of the brightest and hottest that August ever bestowed ...We talked cheerily as usual, and at last rested from our broiling walk on the borders of a glorious pine wood – a wood so extensive that the trees in the distance form a complete wall with their trunks, and so give one a twilight which is very welcome on a hot summer’s day. The ground under the trees is completely covered with soft moss so that one hears no sound of footsteps. ... At length, after a rest in the wood, we came to the open park in front of the Schloss.
– from George Eliot, Recollections of Weimar
Extended reading from George Eliot, Recollections of Weimar, by Susanne Monnerjahn.
Schloss
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