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The Circus in Bath and are you fond of Jane Austen’s works?

Well I am afraid I have bad news to break to you. I am not. I understand though that many of you love ‘Sense and Sensibility’, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Emma’ but I really do not have any patience for dragging drama. In my teenage years I prefer to read detective books and I craved for conspiracy theories. I also do not like reading novels or watching movies where women are treated like wallflowers and dainty objects that need proper care and safeguarding.

Isn’t it great that we are all different? =)

So I knew that Bath is synonymous to Jane Austen but I didn’t feel the need to walk on her footsteps. While I was on my way to The Circus and the Royal Crescent on Gay Street, I passed by the Jane Austen Centre. I couldn’t help but take a picture. Also because a fine gentleman with a long hat in a tuxedo tailcoat was standing next to the door welcoming visitors.

Further up Gay Street is The Circus, a great example of Georgian architecture in the mid 18th century. It is quite elegant. I just wish the garden in the middle had flowers growing on it because it was bare. For such a graceful and historical place I was expecting it to be gloriously presented.

Here is The Circus on the map of Bath. I made a walking direction from the Jane Austen Centre to The Circus to show you how near they are to each other.

Here is the link for those who love the romance during the Victorian Period: Jane Austen Centre. Although, I do not really think I would mind at all going for Afternoon Tea at the Regency Tea Room. Now that is a good idea for next time.

The Circus is basically a large rotunda uniformly lined up with historical Georgian townhouses circa mid 18th century. The British call the rotunda — ’roundabout’. 

Would you like to live here in The Circus? The property is historical and elegantly Georgian however I was just wondering about the traffic here since this is a main street and a roundabout. 

I took lots of pictures of the Gerogian doors in Bath, which is something I did as well when I visited Dublin several years ago.

Beautiful detailing work on the frieze of the buildings.

The middle part of The Circus is a bit bare. It would have been nice if there were flowers.

Gay Street is one of the streets that connects to The Circus. The Jane Austen Centre is just right down on the left.

Travel Period: March 2015
Destination: Bath, Somerset (South West – England), United Kingdom

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