Music Welcome to snoozecast, a podcast designed to help you fall asleep. Find us on snoozecast.com and follow us on Instagram at snoozecast to find behind the scenes content. If you enjoy our show, please write a review on the podcast app. Also, share us with a friend. Snoozecast is intended to be listened to one episode at a time, rather than through continuous play. That episodes get softer as they get to the end, and we don't want you to be woken back up. Most podcast players default to playing continuously, but there's usually an option to use a sleep timer. You can also simply listen directly through our website, snoozecast.com, where we'll only play one episode at a Tonight we'll read the opening to recollections of a tour made in Scotland AD 1803, a travel memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth. Her six-week, 663-mile journey through the Scottish Highlands with her brother William Wordsworth and mutual friend Samuel Taylor Colrich has been called a Masterpiece and one of the best Scottish travel writings during a century which saw hundreds of such examples. Dorothy wrote recollections for family and friends and never saw published in her lifetime. The three travelers were important authors in the burgeoning Romantus' movement, and thus the trip by Tinerary was in part a literary pilgrimage to the places associated with Scottish figures significant to Romant. Dorothy's descriptions and judgments of the countryside and landscapes were a mixture of her own personal aesthetics and the infashion aesthetics of the sublime, beautiful, and picture-esque. In fact, recollections is considered today a classic of picture-esque travel writing. Venturing to Scotland in 1803 was not an easy trip and the 30-year-old Dorothy would experience much of the rougher nature of Scottish life. a depopulated rural land due to industrialization

and emigration, along with rough roads, course lodgings, and sometimes meager food.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now, take a few deep breaths. Part 1. First Week. William and I parted from Mary on Sunday afternoon, August 14, 1803, and William, Coleridge and I, Left Kessweck on Monday morning, the 15th, at 20 minutes after 11 o'clock. The day was very hot. walked up the hills and along all the rough road, which made our walking half the day's journey. Traveled under the foot of Karek, a mountain covered with stones on the lower part, above, it is very rocky, but cheap pasture there. We saw several where there seemed to be no grass to tempt them. Pass the foot of Grisdale and Mosdale. Both pastoral valleys, narrow and soon terminating in the mountains, green with scattered trees and houses, and each a beautiful stream. At Grisdale, our horse backed up upon a steep bank where the road was not fenced, just above a pretty

mill at the foot of the valley. And we had a second threatening of a disaster, and crossing a narrow bridge between the two But this was not the fault of either man or horse.

Slept at Miss... But this was not the fault of either man or horse.

Slept at Mr. Young Husband's public house, has get new market.

In the evening, walk to call back falls, a delicious spot in which to breathe out a

summer's day.