Bath with Roman baths and Jane Austen exhibition

Roman baths in England, in the middle of hilly Somerset?

SURE, OF COURSE! The Romans discovered a thermal spring that still bubbles cheerfully today and was used to build a thermal bath. The city's Roman name was Aquae Sulis, now simply called Bath.

The city has many more attractions than I describe here, you can certainly spend more time here, but here we are a little limited by the weather and our four-legged friends.

For the first time after Tief Agnes, the weather was so good that I could theoretically have run in a T-shirt, but I decided not to because of the wind. It was warm, sunny and wonderful for visiting an ancient metropolis.

We had booked tickets for a certain time, parked the dogs in the car and then set off. Of course, Bath also has an inviting shopping mile that extends around the church and the old baths. Since we didn't see much of the city, I dare say it is extremely charming, not just the area we actually experienced ourselves.

The thermal baths, Roman baths, are a real attraction for England; the sulphurous spring still bubbles today. The bath itself was partially reconstructed and rebuilt over the Roman ruins in the 19th century, but it must be mentioned here that the healing powers of the springs were long known and it is often mentioned in Jane Austen's books that for rheumatic or menopausal maladies Source in Bath was visited. The construction of the baths was a logical step, even if the old Roman buildings were simply built over.

The exhibition is interesting not only because of the audio guides that come with it in different languages, but also because the Roman origins are illuminated right down to the employees in the thermal baths, from the cult of the gods to the pragmatic attitude, and even the guests from Trier not secretive.

I was lucky that it was such a beautiful day because now the Roman flair really came into its own!

After so much culture I wanted a little break, we went to a café, unfortunately I hadn't thought that the Jane Austen exhibition also has a tea room------ BAD!

Christian likes the film adaptations, I'm an Austen fan, and thanks to the question and answer session during the tour, I was the number one Austen fan in the group. OK, lucky me, I know a few things, but not nearly as much as the lady who accompanied Bennett through the exhibition as Eliza. I had a lot of fun from the family history to the perfumes of the time and especially the clothing! (I confess that I couldn't have fit into a Regency dress!)

Our Eliza Lizzie Bennett was actively supported by Mr Wickham during the dress rehearsal, I was able to test my calligraphy skills and put on Marian Dashwood's hat. The only thing that shouldn't be mentioned is my selfie skills with the approximate representation of the author, they were rather subterranean!

I had a lot of fun and would have liked to have another tea, but the tea before was filling enough, I just have to come back to Bath!