It’s About Time

 SONG - Time is on My Side by The Rolling Stones

Day 4 - Fri. May 3

After 13 hours - yes 13 much needed hours of sleep - we are ready to explore Bath!  Mr. B found a tiny restaurant nearby that served breakfast, The Courtyard Cafe. The owners were both French of course.  I had scones with clotted cream & jam while Mr. B ordered pancakes.  

First we headed to the Bath Abbey where there has been a place of Christian worship on this site for well over one thousand years.  Three different churches have occupied the site of today’s abbey since 757 AD. First an Anglo-Saxon monastery which was replaced by a Norman Cathedral to the present day abbey, which was the last great Medieval church built in the country.

From the abbey we headed to the Victoria Gallery to see an exhibit that I had read about at home - Toulouse-Lautrec and the Masters of Montmartre.

Mr. B and I saw quite a few of Lautrec’s pieces in his hometown of Albi, France many years ago but it was wonderful to see some in a more intimate setting.

A visit to the Pulteney Bridge and the River Avon and we were off to Sally Lynn’s for lunch - yum!

Headed home for a rest and then out to dinner. Mr. B got us 8 pm reservations at The Elder which is our hotel’s restaurant.  All I can say is Yum - again!