Aaaaand, we got lost . . .

The B&B owner, Mary, is really nice. She wears tall wedge shoes with skinny jeans and leopard shirts. Her hair is kind of wild and her glasses are perpetually in danger of slipping off her nose. When we got to Bath we were a little worried about the breakfast because the B&B we stayed at our first time in Bath did not have good food and the cooked tomatoes (a staple of a full English breakfast) tasted like sulphur. The tomatoes here, however, taste like tomatoes! We mentioned this to Mary and she said that a lot of B&Bs serve tinned tomatoes because that's what British tourists like.

After a delicious breakfast we decided to time our walk to Bath Abbey because we have to be in that area tomorrow (Thursday) at 8:30 for our Stonehenge tour. We set out from The Albany confident that we knew exactly where we were going. But we were wrong. This is the approximate route that we took:

Wrong way!

 This is the correct way which only takes about 15 minutes:

Right way!

Oh, a small side note. We bought 2 pedometers because we thought that it would be cool to see how much we walk every day. Well, my pedometer said that our Israel-in-the-wilderness way to Bath Abbey was 0.86 of a mile. Google maps disagrees though and says that it's about 1 mile. Dumb pedometer.

Here are some photos from Bath Abbey

The Organ

Altar Rail

Prayer Candle

Organ

Great East Window and Tudor roof

400 year old Jacobian chairs

Libby in front of the Gethsemane chapel altar

bell ropes

Tenor bell

We took the Tower Tour which took us up to the bells and the top of the tour, 212 steps. The abbey has four different methods of ringing the bells (well three actually as one is not in use): one method uses human operated big ropes that swing the bells 360 degrees, another is a system of smaller ropes that only takes one person to use, another is an electric box (which acts like an mp3 player in that it can "store" tunes to be played) that triggers the bell hammers and the last, retired method, is a music box like device.

When we were finished looking around the abbey we went to the Holburne museum which is the collection of art and other related items the Holburne family collected. It seems Mr. Holburne enjoyed going on what the British called "The Grand Tour." On his tour he picked up hundreds of items, many it seems wound up in his museum. The whole museum was a bit of a mishmash of paintings and items from around the world. Noen of which were super interesting but the outside of the museum (as you can see) was beautiful:

Holburne Museum

After the museum we went back to the B&B and took a short nap, then headed back into town for some coffee. Do you want to hear an interesting fact about Starbucks over here? They don't have classic syrup. Weirdos. I should have remembered this from last time but I didn't, and ordered an iced americano with 2 pumps of classic and got a funny look from the barista. Note to self...don't ask for drinks requiring simple syrup.

After Starbucks we headed back up the hill (Bath is VERY hilly) to the Lime Lounge for dinner. Mary recommended this place to us and it was a great recommendation. Tommy had a cajun chicken burger and I had fish and chips. The fish was supposedly dipped in a cajun beer batter but I didn't taste any cajun seasonings. Perhaps they don't know what Cayene pepper is either. For dessert we shared roasted peaches in brandy cream which was also very good. After dinner we walked back down the hill to take some more photos of the abbey.

Bath Abbey and Roman Baths

When we were done taking pictures (i.e. it started pouring again), we headed to the Westgate for a pint before heading back to the B&B. It poured off and on today and was a bit chilly due to the wind. Tomorrow is our Stonehenge and Avebury tour with stops at a couple other towns. We are looking forward to it because we didn't see Stonehenge last time we were here, and some of the other stops seem to be in very quaint and picturesque villages. Well goodnight all, check back next time for another post, and thank you for reading!

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