Bath
Travel Blogs from Bath, United Kingdom
Trip to Oxford, Bath and Stonehenge
... it. Bath is a city where the Romans built many baths and a temple. This city was an architectural gem. A river runs through Bath and it also has a shop-lined bridge (Pulteney Bridge), an amazing abbey, and a beautiful park (Henrietta Park) where we ...
The Morning After...
... treat on our return! After spending all day lounging and lunching with friends at the hotel on Sunday we headed off to a v posh hotel in Bath for some Spa action on Monday (courtesy of Tesco vouchers - gotta love 'em). Then it was a quick trip to ...
Frustration..
... informed that they only had a baggage drop off point, however the main road adjacent to the hostel was their preferred option. Parking in Bath is like Mary and Joseph looking for an inn at Christmas. Why is there so much congestion in the City? - because ...
Warm water anyone?
... who invented Mr. Darcy. After that we hit an English tea room. It was quite lovely. We spent our last hour in Bath at the cathedral. It was no Westminster Abbey, but still amazing. There were a few notable people buried there. At this point we ...
how would you like your eggs?
... ; Certainly an exceptional medieval ruin, worth the hard slog of climbing up and down the steep landscape. A 3 hour drive to Bath. We explore the Royal Crescent, The Circus and Pulteney Bridge, as mini Ponte de Vecchio in Florence. OMG ...
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A day in Bath
... of shops. On a chilly winter Saturday, it was packed with shoppers and tourists. We headed straight to Bath Abbey. It's a beacon in the center of town. I think I'm going to start sounding like a broken record ...
Bath - 27th December
... with lots of interesting facts along the way about Bath and surrounding areas (too bad Jas fell asleep and missed it all!) Apparently Lord Bath has pictures of his "wifelets" ie not his wife. Each one is put on a different step in his home - 73 ...
Stonehenge - At last!
... bus driver, who gave non stop commentary all the way to Stonehenge, and then more when we visited a small village community just outside Bath that was the scene of some filming for the last Harry Potter movie. (Not the one in cinemas now, the one before ...
Wales to Ealing (West London) via Bath
Drove from Sykes farm to Cardiff visited Millenium Stadium then onto Bath and stayed in Hilton Hotel in Bath ...
Gone to Bath to take the waters
... baths, which were completely amazing. People used to write curses on small sheets of metal and cast them into the holy bath ( a direct connection to the goddess Sulis) and ask that she punish the perpetrator. These were preserved, and said things like ...
off to Bath
Tuesday 24.05.2011 - we left Cornall behind and headed for Bath. Kerrie and Greg had previously stayed in Bath in 1997 when they were on a Trafalgar bus tour of the UK and had very fond memories of the place so we decided to stay there again. On ...
Old Roman Baths
Bath is a neat place to stop in England. In middle school and high school, I used to take Latin as my foreign language, so I read all the stories about the Roman army in Britian, the baths, Hadrian's Wall and the ...
Historic Bath
... short tour of the uk was Bath. Kendell decided to come along and we decided to take the sightseeing buses (there are two for bath). The first one takes you up to the countryside and into the hills. After taking that bus we went to see the abbey and ...
A severe case of the sniffles.
... and truly recovered from my monster weekend, it was time for Em, Pete and myself to venture out of the city to the town of Bath, which I was told I couldn't miss while I was in England. My weekend had caught up with me though, and I had a shocking ...
Sarah: Bath, England - Ancient baths ancient stone
... of money (especially here in the UK) but it is a great way to meet some fantastic people. So far we've couchsurfed in Bath, Cardiff, and Cheltenham, where we are now. In Bath, we stayed with a middle-aged man, Charles, who, having recently been through a ...
Trip to the tub
... patterns continue on until they are interrupted by another pattern that looks remarkably similar but is going in a different direction. Except in Bath's case, all the patterns are pale brown. But the thing I liked most about Bath was the fact that the ...
Off to the Bath Henge or something like that..
... 4.5 hours to head out to where the bus will be picking us up for the Tour we purchased of the StoneHenge and the town of Bath... Barely functioning we made it to the bus and tried to sleep off the previous night on our way there.. Spent about 45 mins ...
Let the Road Trip Begin.
... came. Not the walk I had set out for, but gorgeous and invigorating nonetheless. Day 3: Trefin – Bristol – Bishop Sutton (Bath Chew Valley Caravan Park, Bishop Sutton). We were meant to go for a run in the morning but managed to sleep in ...
My birthday week!
... favourite movies. On Friday we'll head off into the sunset on the First Great Western express (train) to Bath. There are pubs, thermal springs, pubs, quaint streets, and pubs. Oh, and Stonehenge is nearby, which I guess ...
Road Trip to Bath & Stonehenge
Note: Stonehenge closes at 4 pm. We arrived promptly at 3:57 and were not able to gain entrance into the site. Guess that is the downfall of being too carefree with travel ...
Of Corsets and Hoop Skirts
You go into the costume museum and you see many old-fashion clothes on display that were in fashion a different time periods. After you look at that you go into a room ...
Bathtime
TUESDAY, 12th December To Bath to look around. We drove up the A36 but made the mistake of turning into the town centre at the first bridge. All the car parks were full and we ended up weaving in and out of the narrow streets and out of town the ...
A Day in Bath
... from Typhoid and so she wore black for the rest of her life, setting the trend? I didn’t. Now I do. Thank you, Bath Fashion Museum. After that, I wandered around Bath a bit more, finding various parks and gardens, as well as the little canal ...
Birthday Bath
... our seats on the train to Bath, and politely kicked out the people who were occupying them. By the time we arrived in Bath I was a bit tipsy, having had a couple of beers before the train and a Magners on the train and the "sorry, I can't ...
Taking a (trip to) Bath
... spent more time on the bus than we did at the actual sites, but oh well. We had dingbat's stories to occupy our time! Bath is a BEAUTIFUL town! It was originally a spa (of sorts) for Romans. Dingbat told us a bunch of stories about the ...

