about a 10 minute ride from Bristol and walked into town.
Found the information center with no trouble at all. Picked up some information on tours to Stonehenge for later in the week. Terry and I went to the see the Roman Baths. Bath was called Aquae Sulis during Roman times. The earliest inscription found in the baths dates it to at least 76 AD.
The statues around the bath are the 9 Roman Emperors who ruled while the Romans occupied Bath; from Julius Caesar to Hadrian and Constantine.
and JoAnne and Ginger went to another museum on Astrology. We met up later for lunch
Waiting for JoAnne and Ginger
at the famous Sally Lunn's,
Sally Lunn was and is famous for her bun's. I had shredded ham and picalili relish (a mustard-base w/carrot, tiny green beans & cauliflower) on a half bun. Surprisingly good combination. Another great
thing about any kind of sandwich in this country is that it always comes with a salad of some kind; and everybody knows that it is a healthy and nutritious meal if it comes with greens. Another healthy thing is it usually has no dressing whatsoever, so you can have extra calories in the sandwich. Ha
and then went to see the Bath Cathedral.
They are all beginning to look the same.
After the cathedral we walked up to the Jane Austen House Exhibit (now she did live in Bath for a short time but not in this house).
The one she lived in was up the road a piece. She spent a lot of time in Bath with relatives when she was gowing up; however according to the lady who talked about Jane's life, as an adult she didn't really like it much. She wrote about what she knew and so several of her books take place in or around Bath. She preferred the country life in a small hamlet nearby called Chawton, Hampshire. The lady who told us the story of her life was interesting. The exhibit itself, not so much. A few pictures of what she may have looked like, the family tree and a few period costumes. "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", and "Emma" by "a Lady" were published before her death. She died at 42 of an unknown illness. Her brother Henry had her two unpublished manuscripts ( "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion") put into 4 volumes and published.
In the forward, he named her as the author of all 6 books. It was the first time her name appeared in print.
After our literary excursion we were much in need of tea and crumpets, so we found a tea room where we all indulged in our own treat instead of one treat four spoons.
Scenery on the way back to the train station
Just as we arrived at the train station, it began to rain. It was a good day.
In for the night. Jammies and blogging.
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JoAnne doesn't look at all happy with the photographer.
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