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 Museum of Costume. In Jane's day the Assembly Rooms was a place used for large gatherings. Guests "assembled" for balls, drink tea, play cards, listen to music or just to talk and flirt. Now it is home to the Museum of Costume 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 that Jane herself would have known, Pulteney Bridge, Great Pulteney Street and Sydney Gardens. Jane often walked and Sydney Gardens was popular for picnics, concerts, fireworks and other entertainment .
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.
Enjoy a Jane Austen themed walking tour around Bath with Bath Parade Guides. Tours range from a general interest about Jane - her visits to the city and how she used Bath in her novels - to more specialist themes such as shopping, entertainment, music, film and novel locations.
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