The Younger Sisters' Five Week Journey Through Europe

Today as we made our way from the Aylens, in Derry Hill, to London, we stopped at a few more Jane Austen inspired stops; first the Jane Austen Museum and then Groombridge. Jane Austen Museum "Jane Austen is one of the most popular and important novelists that England has ever produced. The house at Chawton is where she spent the last eight years of her life. It is of international importance as the place where she did the majority of her mature writing, but at the same time retains the charm of a village home. A 17th century house, it tells the story of Jane Austen and her family. Revised at this house: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility & Northanger Abbey. Written entirely at this house: Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion" ( http://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/about/about.htm ) The museum is fun to walk around, they have set up rooms to be as they were when Jane Austen lived there. I even got to play the piano that Jane Austen played, although I got...

Today we made a giant loop around the southern area of England. Starting at the Aylen's in Derry Hill we visited Stonehenge, Wilton House, Salisbury Cathedral and the town of Lyme Regis on the coast. Stonehenge "Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds. Archaeologists believe it was built anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge). Several theories have been made as to the purpose of Stonehenge and how it was created. Some believe it to be a area for healing, and others a burial ground. Some even believe it was supernaturally created. Whatever it's purpose, it is inte...

This might have been my best blog post yet, full of great information about Bath and lots of pictures. And then somehow I deleted it and there is no way to retrieve it. I've tried multiple times. So I'm going to work on it but I don't think it's going to be finished today. I've managed to upload all the pictures again but I don't have the time right now to fill it all in, plus I'm so frustrated that I deleted it I just need to put it away for a little while! _________________________________________________________________________________ Today we visited Bath, England. "The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis") c. AD 60 when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon,[3] although oral tradition suggests that the hot springs were known before then.[4] It became popular as a spa town during the Georgian era, leaving a heritage of Georgian architecture crafted from Bath Stone...