Friday, October 15, 1830 Travel Journal

1830

October

Friday 15

Breakfast at 11 5/..  

Mr. Turnbull, our consul here, called about 12 for about an hour, and the Reverend Thomas Harvey, the clergyman here, soon after – The latter, gentlemanly young man – Mr. Turnbull very well – Will give Lady Stuart a letter to our vice consul at Toulon to see the arsenal and port – Real maraschino from Zara – Rondeau and Viela, confiseurs, rue de Noailles –

All out in a landau at 2 1/2 – Went to Rondeau’s – Bought chinoise, excellent at 1/80 a pound, dried figs ditto, and all the rest same price – Bought in quantities of 25 pounds, would be 32 sols per pound –

Then drove to the cathedral, said to be the oldest church in France, but after so many reparations, this does not appear – Good church and neatly kept within – broad not high nave and side aisles ? and side chapels and short transepts – All round arches inside –

Then drove past the Lazare, as in going, large, singular looking pile of buildings of outer joined walls –

Then drove to a fabrique de coral.  Lady Stuart bought a little bunch of coral with long ends at 30 sols a link or 12 links for 18/.

Then drove to the botanic garden.  20 minutes there, nothing to see.  Very small plot of ground –

Then drove about the streets, particularly the Grande rue, long very narrow street, and came in at 6 – Dinner at 6 10/.. –

Came to my room at 12 1/4.  Fell asleep over writing these last notes till 1 1/4 –

Fine day – but coolish –


WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/TR/8/0025 and SH:7/ML/TR/8/0026


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