A Day in Bath

10.00am - Visit the Jane Austen Centre, enjoy a snapshot of life during Regency times and explores how living in this magnificent city affected Jane Austen's life and writing. Stop for morning tea with 'Mr Darcy' at the Jane Austen Regency Tea Rooms.

11.30pm - Stroll up to the Royal Crescent and visit Number One where you can enjoy the magnificently restored and authentically furnished town house which creates a wonderful picture of fashionable life in 18th Century Bath.

12.45pm - Visit the Assembly Rooms and Fashion Museum. In Jane's day the Assembly Rooms was a place used for large gatherings. Guests "assembled" for balls, to drink tea, play cards, listen to music or just to talk and flirt. Now it is home to the Fashion Museum and you can see the type of clothes that might have been worn in Jane Austen's time.

1.45pm - Stroll down to the Pump Room and on the way enjoy browsing in some of Bath's great shops. At the Pump Room enjoy lunch while listening to the Pump Room Trio.

3pm - After lunch stroll around the streets and areas that Jane herself would have known, including Pulteney Bridge, Great Pulteney Street and Sydney Gardens. Pop into the Holburne Museum, which would have been the Sydney Hotel and gateway to the 18th century pleasure gardens in Jane's time, where she often walked. Jane lived just opposite in Sydney Place (now marked by a plaque on the wall.) She enjoyed the idea of the breakfast in the garden, writing to Cassandra in May 1799: "there is a public breakfast in Sydney Gardens every morning, so that we shall not be wholly starved." Sadly the public breakfast is no more but, the museum's Garden Café does open at 10am...

4pm - You may wish to end the day with a visit to the Roman Baths where you can walk where the Romans walked or Thermae Bath Spa where you can bathe in the natural thermal waters.