Hubs and I found Bath to be a town with a difference.
We arrived at the elevensies hour having eaten lunch on the train because we were up really early and skipped breakfast!
The buildings were different. None of your typical tudor looks here, yellow stone and Roman architecture.
The Baths were closed or sold out so we didn’t manage to go inside one but we did read all about the spas and the taking of the waters.
I saw a couple of places with mentions of Jane Austen. Outside one cafe a sign boasted,
“I ate the best full English here,” and attributed the words to the literist herself!
No cathedral but a lovely Abbey where Edmund, the first King of England was crowned,
The ceiling in this building was eye catching,
We wandered further along and walked around the The Circus,
admiring the basement gardens
and the pure majesty of the houses.
When it was time for tea, about 2pm now, we noticed that the visitor population of the town had swelled to thousands of rude, foreign, student tourists! I find young people today have no respect for anyone walking along the same path as them, perhaps it has something to do with driving on the left!
We bolted our cream teas
and fled, passing, along the way, the rare window of a butcher’s shop!
It was too early to leave Somerset so we spent a quiet hour watching canals pass through the lock,
http://thesociablehomeschooler.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IMG_4680.MOV.movcalmed, we took a final shot and turned our backs on Bath and the peaceful River Avon.
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
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