A Jane Austen pilgrimage in Bath

Alex, Clare and myself visited Bath today for the delayed Jane Austen pilgrimage, to visit the main houses where she lived. Here is a reference - and here are the pictures (click on them to make them larger).

This is 25 Gay Street, just south of The Circus

Gay Street looking north towards The Circus

The Jane Austen Centre on Gay Street - one of these is real

Jane's house at 3, Queen Square

Alex and the author at Queen Square

Alex and Clare at 13 Trim Street - not Jane's favourite abode

Trim Street from the western end - you can see why ...

27 Green Park Buildings

Clare and the author at Green Park Buildings

Bath Abbey and the first day of the Christmas Market

Stalls at the Christmas Market

The interior of Bath Abbey

I have a (two minute, 200 MB) video of the Christmas Market which I will post subsequently. In other news, I today upgraded this machine upon which I type from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Just left the process running while we were at Bath and it was mostly done on our return. Not as scary as I thought and the desktop looks familiar - not the tiles I was fearing.

Le Bistrot Pierre, Bath

Lunch today at the very pleasant Le Bistrot Pierre, Bath. Food was good and bon marché while the waitresses spoke perfect English gently seasoned with "Monsieur" and "Fromage" - in accents not a million miles from authentically French.

Here are some impressionistic pictures which might convey the ambience for this family get-together. Our thanks to Jane for organising it.

We had hopes of a post-prandial Jane Austen pilgrimage around the houses she occupied in Bath but we ran out of time.

We'll try and combine it with a trip to the Bath Christmas Market (November 26th - Dec 13th).