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Bath
Travel Blogs from Bath, United Kingdom
So long, England!
... cafes cost around here! Also, no photos for the time being, most don't have a usb port to allow downloads. Right now we are in Bath. No, not 'in' the bath, just in case you were wondering what sort of internet cafe we were in... but allow me to ...
Packing and leaving teaching
Hi Well only 2 days left at school and I have packed my bags. Seems odd that I will be leaving teaching but I guess the real world awaits me. Love ...
Day 8, Bath: Of cabbages and Kings
... the fact that it's Sunday and so there is no bus from our hostel down to the city although we can now successfully navigate Bath's outer reaches. Our tour took us to Castle Combe first which is one of the southern Cotwolds (a bunch of cute old vilages) ...
The adventure begins!
I have been waiting for this day for nearly a year and it has finally arrived. I woke up this morning knowing I am going but still not really believing it. I am two hours away from leaving to go to the airport and have finally finished packing! It all ...
Hampton Court
... so much to do. ...and so to Bath. We collected a hire car at Heathrow with the intention of driving straight to Bath, but we were immediately distracted by signs for Hampton Court, so went there first. With dusk closing in early, we really only had ...
Bath
... guide, was fun, scenic and informative. Apparently the foundation of gallant behaviour and polite manners was laid down by the Bath's Master of Ceremonies, Richard Beau Nash. Once more I'd like to note the England's efficient and well-organized system ...
The Countryside
Hard to believe a few days ago a wet weekend was forecast. Today was again variable, but with enough sunshine to keep us chirpy. Cold though! Packed lunch in the boot, we drove to Stourhead, a magnificent National Trust home. The house itself ...
A Magical Land
... city of bath. A short list follows: -Everything in Bath and its surrounding area must be built of Bathstone (a limestone from Bath quarries). You can therefore tell the new buildings from the old depending on the brightness of the stone. -The ...
Scrub-a-dub-dub
... day trip and we’d recommend a trip here for anyone visiting London and area. Although, in hindsight, a note to any future Bath bound traveler, it might be worth combining this trip with a stop at Stonehenge. It’s so close by that most tours ...
Bath with an Aussie guide
... with one of the volunteers before his was awarded. From there to the Roman Baths. These have been a part of the Bath landscape for around 2,000 years, but additional excavations have opened up more of the original site, and an impressive new museum ...
Stonehenge and Bath
On June 9 me and my friend Sarah went to Stonehenge and Bath on a BUNAC trip. Stonehenge was a bunch of rocks... it was a tiddle overrated but worth seeing if you're never going to be in that area again. Bath was a lovely town with beautiful ...
Before we go...
We're off tomorrow: EasyJet from Bristol. Accommodation is booked - we are staying in the home of a Danish guy called Anders. Really looking forward to visiting the Viking museum in Roskilde as well as the sights of Copenhagen. We'll be trying to upload ...
Bathing in Bath
... around here for quite some time we went back up to the old town where the big Abbey sat to join a free walking tour of Bath. The walking tours here were very different to that of everywhere else so far – this one was run by old Bath retirees ...
Bath and Some Really Old Mysterious Stones
WOW. That pretty much sums it up. This town hasn't changed since Jane Austen lived there. Such beautiful stone streets and some really interesting city and regional planning. The highlight for me was the roman baths which blew me away. Even though I ...
Weekend Walkabout continued
... we will be visiting the St. George Pub for supper. Like many pubs in England, this one is about twice as old as the United States, its inception dating back to the fourteenth century. It is very quaint and the food is good, although it takes a while to ...
Bath
Bath was beautiful. We checked out the Roman Baths, and sampled some of the natural spring water! It wasn't so ...
Splish-splash, on my way to Bath
12 Nov 2004 Somewhere between London and Bath As I write this, I'm sitting in the first class car of an eastbound train from London to Bath, enjoying tea and biscuits and watching the English countryside pass by. I...AM...SO...COOL!! Batteries ...
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me Your Bath!
... very little relevance to the historic nature of the place. www.bizarrebath.co.uk Rated number 1 tourist attraction in Bath by tripadvisor.com And a weather report: Today expecting 50mms rain widespread throughout England. Of course! ...
A bath in Bath
So I had the real bath experience today and visited a Spa with a stunning city panorama view. I also spent half an hour inhaling menthol. No mum, I did not smoke. There were 4 steam rooms with different ...
Day 7, Cambride-Bath: Drinking bathwater
... cresent which we could both happily live in. The hostel in Bath is in a really pretty old building and is quite nice inside with a lovely view over Bath. This does of course mean that we are on a hill which we have to tramp up at the end of every ...
Murky But Magical
... sort of swimming pool with green water and old stone that my parents said was something of a Roman bathtub. Today I went back to Bath via fast train (so fast I couldn't focus on anything in the landscape whizzing by) with my very game husband, who ...
Lost in A giant Bath
... hire car. We get to Bath in good time (after a quick stop off to Visit the Queen at Windsor Palace, of course). Bath is BAZZARE. I look around and can’t quite understand why everyone is wearing modern day clothes. We have clearly travelled back in ...
Amazing - Windsor Castle, Stonehenge & Bath
... honey/apricot coloured limestone, unique to the area and the streets of the ancient city are all cobbled. We visited the Roman Bath House & it's museum and got to see the original hot spring that filled the ancient baths. It still ...
The Roman Baths and Stonehenge
... and headed to the tourist info centre to find stuff to do. We ended up taking a 2 hour walking tour (totally free!!!) of Bath. It was informative and interesting to know the history of the 2nd century town. Then we had some lunch from a cute little ...
Day 123 - 1 July - The Cotswalds
Woke and decided to tour the Cotswalds today. Arrived in Lacock village which is in North Wiltshire it dates from the 13th century and has loads of limewashed half-timbered and stone houses, was used as a location in the TV and film productions of Pride ...
Stonehenge and Bath
... , and so exact were Austen’s descriptions that I could imagine Anne, the heroine of her novel, walking the streets of Bath, her umbrella clashing against the damp umbrellas of other fellow pedestrians, and her dashing into a tea shop to get out of ...
What Spa?
It was a quick ride from Salisbury to Bath on the efficient National Rail system. Brought my swim trunks looking forward to soaking in the famous hot springs so was deeply disappointed to find out that the Roman Baths are merely a historical attraction ...
I'm in love! With Bath, that is.
... history. And it's so beautiful - all the streets are lined with honey-coloured stone buildings and you can see the Bath Abbey from almost anywhere. I'm planning to stay here until Saturday, and then I'll be off to visit the Peak National District. ...
Cheerio Europe!
... of rocks, but it reminded me of when I was in Odyssey of the Mind back in elementary school. It brought back lots of memories. :) Bath was just a really cool place (like the Salt Mines I visited in Poland) and had lots of history. I enjoyed them both, but ...
A Whirlwind Tour
... .Now having found the meeting place, I realized I still had a half-hour to kill, so I wandered around inside Bath Abbey for a while, where I did not have to utilize my mad ninja skillz because they quite happily allowed pictures and ...