A two-coach train pulls out of the station where two girls sit waiting for a train.
"That was our train."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Well? Lunch?"
Well those two girls just so happened to be two very tired girls who had spent the morning at Stonehenge, Old Sarum, and Salisbury Cathedral. But we had to keep going to Bath so we could find a place to stay the night; other than on the street. So, instead of eating on the train on our way to Bath, we had a lovely hour to eat lunch and laugh about our silly mistake in the Salisbury rail station. When the next train came in we actually got on! ; )
Arriving in Bath, we made straight for the tourist information centre in the train station to ask about accommodation for the night. We found a grand Bed and Breakfast, that actually seemed more like a hotel. We were pretty excited about booking our first hotel/B&B room by ourselves :) It was a very cute little room with two beds, a really big fireplace and our own bathroom! We dumped our bags (very gladly) and went off galavanting! Only problem, everything was closing and we were exhausted.
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| The Street of Bath |
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| Outside of our B&B |
We planned to go to the Fashion Museum that was showing British Costume Design from the Academy Awards, but it closed before we could get there, so instead we went to the Jane Austen Centre. It is in a small building and the tour begins on the second floor with a introduction to the Austen family. I enjoyed hearing that bit, since I didn't know that much about Jane's family. The museum continued on the ground floor with displays showing some of the things of daily life during Jane's time in Bath. I was a little disappointed though, because as I understood there were supposed to be costumes from some of the Jane Austen films but that turned out to be false. : (
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| Entrance to the Centre |
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| One of the few dresses on display |
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| A letter from Jane to her sister Cassandra |
After getting kicked out of the Jane Austen Centre at closing time, we went to the Roman Baths. These are one of the only hot springs in England and was discovered and well used from Roman times! It was an interesting museum, beautiful baths that made us both sleepy (of course maybe having already done so much that day had something to do with it too!), and a ton of info that definitely went in one eye and out the other. Apparently, there was also a temple built in conjunction with the baths (built around 63 AD), that was a worship center for a goddess, possibly related to the weather or the sun.
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| The English people love flowers and display them in a variety of ways |
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| The dome of the building entering the Roman Baths |
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| Pieces from the original temple face |
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| The goddess |
After that, we headed back to the B&B to grab some dinner from the adjoining bar/restaurant, but when we asked at the bar for a menu, we were met with a slightly blank stare then a "Well, we actually don't serve food right now..." Nice. So we headed across the street on a recommendation, in search of fish and chips. We got the fish and chips, but not before waiting a considerable amount of time for someone to come take our order, then suddenly figuring out that they weren't going to, because we had to go up to the bar and order. Yeah, that was a really long day. We ate and went back to our room and figured out how to get to our next destination: Cardiff, Wales.
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| Walking back to our B&B we were reminded that "Water is Best" |
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| Beautiful sunset ending the day |
-Jeanette[Sorry for the lack of posts, as always, we promise we'll get more up soon, but don't expect another post for at least 2 weeks... ; )]
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