Bath

Spent last night and today in Bath.   We’re staying in the Oldefield Guest House, which is charming, albeit up a steep hill from the town.  We’ve run the gamut of lodgings, from our truck stop in Cambridge to our old, distinguished hotel in Oxford with creaking floors and mazes for halls, to our present accommodation, which has no lift or AC, but a great breakfast with cloth tablecloths and napkins.

Today we saw the Jane Austen center, the Roman Baths, the Fashion Museum (it was attached to the ballroom where Jane danced),  the Bath Abbey, and the oldest house in Bath, which is Sally Lunn’s house and current site of Sally Lunn’s Buns.  We lunched there and really enjoyed it.  When we got tired, we sat in lawn chairs in the Peace Garden along the river and dozed in the sunshine.  Found  a store of my favorite chain in the UK and managed to do some shopping.

There’s a City Pride Campaign where everyone decorates lions, as we did buffaloes for the Olympics.  So everywhere we went we saw lions creatively costumed; i.e., a Wimbledon lion, a lion covered with Scrabble tiles, an Elvis (the King) lion, and a soccer lion where a placard had been placed that said, “I’m not responsible for the result–please don’t blame me.” signed by the artist.

Weather was overcast and cooler than it’s been….perfect!  My graphic for today would probably have been of the Elvis lion.