Hello!

Big day today enjoying the beautiful town of Bath. Bath is gorgeous and full of history, so it ended up being a very busy day.

First of all, a bit about the town of Bath.

Its major claims to fame in the present center mainly on its history. It has deep history as a Roman town, founded due to the natural hot springs located here (the only one in Britain), where a huge Roman resort was erected.

When Rome fell, the bath was covered in medieval times, but was excavated in the 1700s and experienced a resurgence in popularity as a place where people would come to resort and drink the waters of Bath that were supposed to be good for your health.

Because drinking Bath water is good for the health. Noted.

We started our day out heading to the Royal Crescent hotel in the famous area of Bath’s Royal Crescent. And here it is:

The Royal Crescent is, in fact, crescent shaped, and is made of limestone like most of the other buildings in bath, giving it a lovely look and color.

The Royal Crescent Hotel has a lovely garden that is open to the public if you walk through the lobby, and if you go at the right time you can grab breakfast or a bit of tea or coffee in the garden. Which is what we did.

The interior was also beautiful.

After morning tea we headed back out of the Royal Crescent in search of the Jane Austen center, where I knew some fun experiences awaited us.

When looking for the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, just follow the Regencywear. It’s hard to miss.

Each of the employees chooses a Jane Austen character that they portray. At the door, Elizabeth Bennet was there to greet us.

There is a brief tour given to hat talks about the life of Jane Austen (ours was given by Lydia Bennet, who was very silly indeed) her books, and her family, then you are set free to roam around and look at costumes and memorabilia of the movies and historic items.

The whole thing culminates in the opportunity to put on a Regency era costume and take pictures with Mr. Darcy at Pemberly, which may just have been the highlight of my life.

After you dress up, there’s a room where you can write a note reminding your loved one of your most ardent and passionate love for them with a quill and ink pen.

I wrote a note to Byron.

Then we headed upstairs to the Regency tearoom for afternoon tea with Mr. Darcy. This was not included in the ticket price, but it was fun and we thought the food and tea were both surprisingly good.

After tea we wandered to the historic center of Roman Bath to visit the excavated remains of the Roman Baths. You can’t actually go in the baths here, but they have a really fantastic museum and you do get to walk around the baths.

Here’s the outside:

The Museum pieces with some of Roman Britain’s best artifacts.

Including little metal pieces with curses chiseled on them. Because Romans were petty too.

The actual baths were stunning

You also get the “opportunity” to drink the hot springs water in hopes that it will heal your woes, just like the Regency set did.

The gentleman working swore up and down it was safe to consume, but it didn’t taste that way.

After visiting the baths, we decided to go ahead act like Romans, so we had pizza for dinner then went to the modern spa with modern baths that uses the same natural hot springs as the historic one. We also did some walking around.

No cameras allowed in the spa (which we’re all thankful for), but it was really nice with two hot springs pools (one on the rooftop), and sauna and steam rooms. Perfect way to relax and end a busy day.

Goodnight.