Monday, 2 November 2009

We Hastened Up Pultney St to the Tilney's

No, we didn't. First we dined in the Pump Room (most excellent). We shopped for a few hours and then we took an open-topped tour bus to view this fine city. Afterwards, afternoon tea was taken in the Jane Austen tea rooms (on Gay Street), where several more purchases completed our retail excursion: abridged Austen for Dory (and myself I must confess - each volume the same length! Reminds one of a remark about Beatrice Webb by Virginia Wolf :"Her ideas are like the grass of a newly mown lawn. All the same length").




Here is the bridge with shops either side leading onto fashionable Pultney St, long which the heroines of Austen sped.
We came into town from our commercial campsite on a local bus, not unfortunately this beautifully restored Bristol decker.The Circus by the Woods.



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