Spiers: Journal of my wedding tour 1837

Sunday 6 August continued

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had travelled with at different parts of our journey, or had dined with. – It seemed a general rendezvous for our friends & almost made us feel at home.

In the gambling rooms adjoining, play was going on very briskly; when we looked in at 10 o’clock this morning on going to Church it was the same.

A ball takes place in the Cursaal 2 or 3 times a week. Admission to gentlemen 20 crowns to ladies free, gratis, for nothing. Is not this gallant & as it should be.

MONDAY AUG. 7 I had been very idle the 2 last mornings & preferred hearing the 6 o’clock music which is performed to the promenaders at the Kochbrunnen near to our

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