The Goodenough Blog

Wow what a day.  We left Liverpool today early to get on not one, but 4 trains!  L-o-o-o-o-o-n-g day.  We finally arrived in Bath today and what an incredible city.  We are staying at the Tolley Cottage which is just 10 min walk from the city center.  The cottage is right on the Avon canal and from our room we have a view of the city and the canal and so we watched the sunset from our room while we rested from our long journey.

We decided to venture out and see the city and stopped into Sally Lunn’s Tea House.  This house is the oldest house in Bath, built in 1482 the house is famous for Sally Lunn who came to the house in the 1600’s and started baking buns that became famous and they still serve them today.  It is so fun, like tea in Jane Austen’s living room.  We had tea and buns and then wandered over to Bath Abbey.    For dinner we decided to go to Jamie Oliver’s Restaurant here in town.  It is rustic Italian and the food was excellent.  We had these green olives that were incredible and they were playing Il Postino, one of my favorite films, on the wall with English subtitles.  Actually it was so cool because Il Postino is about the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda during his political asylum in Italy, the reason this is cool is because Neruda is one of my favorite poets.  The other reason it was cool to see it today is that we had a Neruda poem on the head table at our wedding exactly 9 years ago today.

I can’t wait to surprise Eric with our Anniversary present tomorrow!