Bath
Travel Blogs from Bath, United Kingdom
First day in Bath
... we figure its better to be early than late and we weren't yet sure how the train system in the UK ran. After we arrived at Bath we soon found our hostel and after stowing our bags (and taking a real quick nap for about three hours, no kidding) we decided ...
Roman Baths
... we stopped to take more pictures of the large abbey beside the baths which was the place where the first King of the united England, Edgar, was coronated. We made our way back to the hostel, with some soup and fresh baked bread for supper, later in ...
Lavender and Mint Steam, Anyone??
... rooms for detoxifying the body. This bath house had 4, enclosed by floor to ceiling glass, with varying aromatherapy fragances united by a refreshing open group shower in the middle of the room. You could inhale mountain pine, frankincense, lavender or ...
Tour Guide
... So after panicking all day (remember it was my first tour group!) it all sorted out in the end.. Since I didn't see much of Bath, I took another tour group up (with Natasha) a few months later, this time I even knew where things were and could point ...
Going Home
... fit and alert woman for her age. I left Cheam at 4pm and caught the 5.30pm bus from London's Victoria Station to Bath... 3.5 hours. The National Express Bus Service is ever so efficient... runs to the second on most occasions. It is much cheaper ...
Bath and environs
... in our vauxhall something or other. A solid automobile (thanks jay). It is quite good at buffing curbs with its tires. We reached bath and after a little grunt work managed to find a hostel to stay in right in the centre of town. We are staying in ...
To Zorb the Stone Ring
... booked a couple of beds at the local YMCA we headed out for some dinner at a quaint little Italian place then wandered around the town. Bath was nice as the tourists rolled out for the day. We saw the old Roman Baths, hence the town's name, and the cool ...
Welcome Retreat from London
... on our Aussie beer's and wine whilst in WA. I spent the morning touring the sights... including the Roman Baths, Bath Abbey, Royal Crescents, Botannical Gardens, markets, Puteny Bridge and surrounding streets. Bath is a beautiful town... but ...
Long Live Sulis Minerva!
... then. Our tour ended with a visit to the Pump Room. An elegant Georgian styled restaurant overlooking the main bath had a beautiful water fountain from which you could get served a complimentary glass of hot spring water. Ed and I ...
Snowden to Stonehenge
... using deer antlers! So many generations just piling more dirt up onto a hill with no apparent purpose....anyone, any ideas??????? Bath is a neat little city/town...did not seem all that big. Visited the main attractions, Roman Baths, Royal Cresent ...
Bath, but not Ston Easton Park (World)
... go back and spend more time, stay a night or two (and NOT be a part of a tour group so I can explore at will). P.S. The author includes Ston Easton Park with Bath in the listing. It sounds like it is an 18th century mansion turned restaurant. Next time. ...
Bath, England
... of Bath was recognised in 1987 with designation 'World Heritage Site', the only city so honoured in Britain. No visitor to Bath leaves unrefreshed or without a profound sense of gratitude for the gifts of the past. Three remarkable men were largely ...
Big Rocks and Greasy Pies
... Next stop was in Bath where there is Cadbury chocolate (a bit of a letdown after Swiss chocolate) and Roman Baths. I went into Bath Abbey and ate a Cornish Pastie which is a flakey pastery filled with various fillings. I ate the steak and potato one and ...
Drive to Bath
... didn’t help to visit at the same time as 3 bus loads of tourists. We continued on our drive to the Georgian town of Bath. The countryside was beautiful and at parts it looked like Australia and then as` soon as we saw a house you knew we were in ...
Narrowboating on Kennet & Avon Canal
... when we got back from our mornings strolling through Bath, we'd be ready to head on back towards Bradford. Walking down towards Bath we were greeted by church bells ringing through the town and a bit of rain too. Being Easter however, the shops took a ...
Bath II
... by the river Avon, where we saw an Elvis impersonator on a boat. We went up into the hills behind the city, where the University of Bath lies, and where Jane Austen used to like to walk, and got a lovely sunset view of the city for our pains. Then again ...
Roman Baths
... cream... the clotted cream is a regional thing I really really wanted to try. But, by the time we finished wandering around Bath, everything had closed down. So we pretty much hung out in the restaurant and bar of the hostel for the rest of ...
Bath, England
10/2/2011 Jack We are in Bath in the hostel YMCA. Our room has two bunk beds. I'm on one of the top bunks. Our room is small. Bath is a nice town because it small and has beautiful ...
The Roman Bath Spas
... such as the making of lead pipes to carry water and sub-floor heating systems called hypocausts. Centuries later Bath become popular again because the spa waters were said to have healing properties and they could cure infertility. In ...
Castles, Roman Baths and a Mystery
... and viewed the excavation and thermal waters then we had a little free time to explore the town. After leaving Bath we drove through the countryside and through the Salisbury Plain to the site of Stonehenge. We were truly ...
Pride and Predjudice
... I could appreciate why the place was so important. And I learned some stuff too! After an hour at Stonehenge we continued onto Bath which I absolutely loved. Now, like I said before, this was my second trip to Bath but this was the first time that I ...
So bizarre!!
I have visited the walking stand-up/magic show Bizarre Bath. Lots of fun! There are no historical facts, no pretentious guides starting every second sentese with "Did you know....". Just 90 minutes of ...
Bath, England -Rich
... the fast train from London to Belgium on the 4th (my dads birthday, Happy Birthday Dad). The train connections back from Bath make things too tight and the trains are quite expensive so we could change the reservation, but we checked and renting a ...
Taking a Bath!
... , expecting to see scantily clad Romans emerging from the spa waters. The baths were discovered buried beneath the modern city of Bath when residents above kept being flooded with warm water. The "spa" includes areas where people change, where they are ...
Stonehenge and Bath
... and the devil. It was really windy (kind of reminded me of West Texas) and pretty cold. After Stonehenge, we went to Bath which is a beautiful town. I would really like to go back and spend more time at the museums. There was a Jane Austen Center ...
Hitchihiking out of London Stonehenge to Bath.
... the country i think so we walked a few miles through wet grass to where there was a motorway and someone gave us a ride all the way to Bath, England even though it was way out of their way. They dropped us off at a hostel it was like 11pm we walked in the ...
England
... ) It was great to see him again, and we both enjoyed telling his coworkers the tsunami story together. Bath: This morning I boarded a bus for Bath. It took a little over three hours from London. Bath is England's ...
Stonehenge and Bath
Some simple observations on Stonehenge and Bath... Stonehenge: - It's cold and windy - There's grass. It's green. Quite possibly because it's allways raining here. I already have a cold (started sniffling as the plane was pulling in ...

