A couple weekends later, I went back to Bath, this time with Mary Kate.
It was a very literary day. We started off at the Jane Austen Museum. The Jane Austen Museum isn't actually in the house where Jane Austen lived (that one is currently a dentist's office) but is very close to it, both in location and architectural style.
Jane Austen spent most of her life in the country. It was only after her father retired that they moved to Bath, and she hated it there. She found the society silly and city life stifling. Be that as it may, it provided excellent fodder for her books.
Here are some photos of parts of the museum.
Trim Street, one of the other Jane Austen locations (she moved a few times).
We then stopped at Sally Lunn's for lunch and tea, and partook of the renowned Sally Lunn buns. The buns are very large and plain. They were very tasty, but honestly I don't understand the hype. The building was cool, though. It's the oldest house in Bath. It was built in 1482, and Sally Lunn lived there around 1680.
I wasn't quite ready for the camera.
Tea time!
We ended the day with a different literature-related item: Turkish Delight! While Turkish Delight is an actual sweet, we Americans mostly know it as the food Edmund requests from the White Witch in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Neither Mary Kate nor I knew it was a normal sweet. In fact, we didn't even know if it was a sweet. But here it is! It's very gelatinous, kind of like softer, more mildly-flavored gummy bear cubes. We got them in rose and lemon flavors, which apparently are the most popular.
I'll close this post off with a string of pictures we took in and around Bath. It's a very beautiful city, no matter what Jane Austen may tell you!
The Baths.
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