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| Lyndhurst on a rainy Monday |
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| Alice Liddell's grave in the churchyard on top of the hill |
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| The warm springs are still flowing in the Roman Baths |
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| A Roman Maiden waiting for offerings perhaps? |
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| The Georgian circus |
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| spot the white horse on the side of the hill on the way to Bath (enlarge to view) |
After a week of sunny warm weather (for England) clouds and showers have descended on us.
However on Sunday we celebrated our wedding anniversary at the local Bell Inn with a delicious lunch.
Monday was rather a wet and chilly one. So we drove to Lyndhurst about 10 miles away and investigated the little town. Being half term break and bank holiday everyone else thought it was a good idea too. Anyway we climbed the hill to St Michael and all Angels to see the grave of Alice Liddell who was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It is covered by a little garden of well tended rose bushes and later had cornish pasties for lunch (but I am still waiting to have a decent cappaccino!)
On Tuesday we drove to Salisbury and took the train to Bath. It was a lovely trip. The landscape is very different to Lincolnshire, more rolling hills and hedgerows with sheep grazing in the pastures and the Avon river flowing beside the railway. We spotted one of the chalk horses carved into the side of the hills in the distance.
Bath is beautiful town. Row on row of elegant
medieval or Georgian stone buildings. We explored the Roman Baths centre for an hour then climbed up the hill to walk around that amazing circular row of grand Georgian architecture. On the way we stopped in at the Jane Austen centre which has a small exhibition to pay tribute to her connections to her life in Bath. The staff all dress in period costume. I was not surprised to see a great number of international tourists roaming about Bath
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| Sulis Minerva who started it all? |
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| Mr Darcy(?) At the Jane Austen Centre. |
