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Titel: Äldre inlägg (arkiv) till 02 februari, 2008
Skrivet av: Ulla-Britt Holmqvist skrivet 2008-02-02, 15:34
Hi Joseph!
Sorry I do not know what happened to “Uncle Zacharias”!
A few notes about “our inn”:
A young English lady travelled in 1794 from Oslo to Gothenburg and visited the inn and posting-station of Herrestad .
She had planned to stay overnight in Uddevalla , but when they came to Herrestad the coachman stopped and refused to go any further . It was late and the steep hills had exhausted the horses.
“Since there was nothing else to do I entered the inn, but was almost driven out again from the odour that hit me from a room where 8 or 10 people were asleep besides the dogs and cats that were scattered on the floor. Two or three men and women lay on the wooden benches , the others on old chests. One of them woke up and stared at me. I would have taken him for a ghost if his shirt had been white enough to contrast against his dirty greyish face, but since his clothes did not suggest a shape of a ghost I passed him without fearing anything else then the fumes hovering around me, gently finding my way past bowls, milk-buckets and washing-tubes that stood on the floor . After having climbed a dilapidated flight of stairs I came to a bedroom. The bed did not look inviting. I opened the window, took some clean towels from my night-bag and spread them over the bed. In spite of all nausea my exhausted body received some rest. At dawn I was awaken by singing birds and went down to see to the horses. I hurried through the room downstairs – a bizarre mixture of pigsty and human dwelling”.
In November 1743 Per Persson and three other inn-keepers got together and came to turns about a table of rates, which was presented to The District Court.
The travellers pay for each person and meal:
Homely fare 8 skillings Better fare 12 Breakfast: bread, butter, cheese and meat 4 A “kanna” of double beer 8 Ale 12 Good French spirits 16 Distilled Cumin spirits 1 Simple spirits 1 A big dram of French spirits 3 A small one 2/3 A pot of tea with sugar 6 Bed for one night each person 2 A better bed 3 Big candle that burns 4-5 hours 2 Half the size 1 A big fire, if the inn has a forest 2 A smaller one 1 A “kanna” of good oats 2 ½ A “kanna” of less quality 2 Hay 4 Barley-straw 2 Long straw 3 Grease for the wheels 2/3
Even if the inn was a bit dirty it seems that it could provide both food and drink!
Ulla-Britt
Oh, it got a bit jumpy!!!!!!!! Don´t know what I have done.
Just saw your mail! Funny thing is that my husband´s grandfather was born in Herrestad in 1858. He and Hulda might have known each other!