Who can be tired of Bath? Jane Austin.
Who else is tired of Jane Austin?: Bath.
I came to Bath because it’s the end point in the 100-mile Cotswold Way walk.
The Romans came to Bath because there was water here that they could take a bath in (you could look it up).
The Avon flows through Bath.
Coincidentally it’s filled with water.
It is the 19th longest river on England.
No, seriously.
You could look that up too if you don’t believe me.
Fun fact: Astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus here.
While sitting in his bathtub.
He exclaimed: Eureka! It’s Uranus!
Ok, I did make those last two fun facts up.
But Mary Shelly did write most of Frankenstein (who never took a bath) here while living here at 5 Abbey Churchyard.
But according to a DC comic I read as a kid, Shelly got the idea for Frankenstein one night when lightening revealed to her the face of Superman arch-nemeses Bizarro.
Who was time traveling through Bath at the time.
And if that isn’t true it damned well should be.
William Harbutt invented Plasticine, a child’s modeling clay, here.
Not to mention that Sir Isaac Pitman invented shorthand here in 1958.
Which as we all know changed the world forever.
Oh, and they blow glass here.
And there are plaques everywhere.
Plus now I can’t wait to read the Evol Trilogy.
Queen Victoria came to Bath to dedicate the Royal Victoria Park (not pictured above).
She never came back.
Did you know that the theory of displacement was conceived in a bath?
Just not in this Bath.
And that’s all I know about Bath.
Because I was only there for one day.
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