Visiting Jen & Ben in London

We went to London to visit Jen and Ben. Since we have been to London before, we were keen to spend time just hanging out with them and seeing something outside of the city. We headed out to visit the city of Bath, home of Jane Austen and tour the Roman Baths.

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Bath is only about an hour by train west of London. We loaded up on coffee, muffins, a deck of cards and hit the tracks!
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It’s amazing to think about the amount of history here! First, we took a Jane Austen-themed walking tour. That really inspired us to rent some more of the films and read her books.

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Then we checked out the Roman Baths. As if we didn’t pack in enough activities, we stopped off at a local sports shop to pick up some cheap swimwear and spend some time in the thermal spa. We soaked our selves in water about 10 different ways!
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Here is a SUPER cool 360 degree view of the River Weir in the center of Bath. Pretty neat, huh!
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Here's Jay in front of one of the old baths turned into a more modern spa. There were no appointments available so we checked elsewhere to see if we could get something in later in the day.
. Here is the Pulteney Bridge from the north. It's one of only four bridges in the world that has shops across both full sides.
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From this side it looks strikingly like the Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
.The weather was mostly agreeable for our weekend. Here is Karen on our Jane Austen Tour during one of the five minutes it was lightly raining. We got pretty lucky by UK weather standards!
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This was one of the icon symbols for the town of Bath. There are versions of this face with wings all over the city. This was inside the museum on Bath.
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This is part of the outer building on one of the baths. This symbol shows they had a concept early on that the earth was round. We thought this was pretty cool.
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This is an attempt at an artistic shot of the great bath. This one is one of my favorite pictures from Bath.

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Here's another 360 view of the great bath. How cool is that!

.The next morning we had a leisurely blueberry and banana pancake breakfast before making our way to the flower market and some cool shopping areas. Here was a fantastic looking guy selling peacock feathers.

.We ad lunch at a cool Indian place. Ben's here suffering through what he thought were harmless peppers from Jen's plate. After we all tried some and we all suffering together!
. We got to the flower market a little late, but still did a little shopping.
. I had to add this shot outside an antique shop near the flower market. I thought it was pretty well composed for a wide aperture picture.
. On our way back to their place in Chelsea we went by this court area and watched some bicycle polo. They make it look so easy!