Bath

 Another beautiful sunny day so Terri and I were out and about early, we walked from the hotel, across the river into Bath and purchased tickets for the hop on hop off bus and spent a couple of hours just soaking up the history and grandeur of the place.

Bath is a beautiful Georgian City built on the site of the ancient Roman town of Aqua Sulis. The architecture is beautiful with Georgian buildings constructed out of the beautiful honey coloured Bath Stone.  The Royal Crescent is an incredible example of Georgian Architecture and these days the tour buses are not allowed to drive around the crescent, which I think is a good thing, it means you can walk around and really soak up the history without a lot of traffic.

Naturally we did a tour of the Roman Baths, and even though I'd been the  re before it was still an incredible experience and Terri was truly impressed!!  It's just amazing how much of the original baths still exist, the hot spring that the baths are bulit on (which had been revered and held sacred for centuries before the bloody Romans arrived!!)  still spews gallons of hot water every day, its an awe inspiring sight just to see the overflow which still feeds the main pool in the courtyard.

After leaving the baths we indulged in some retail therapy before heading to the Pump Room for high tea, and what a high tea it was, a lovely glass of bubbly, multiple pots of tea, dainty sandwhiches, savoury tarts, scones and cakes, in fact we had to get a doggy bag as we couldn't eat it all.

To walk off some of the indulgence we took the bus to Queens Square Park and walked around the beautiful parklands just across from the Royal Crescent.  One could almost imagine Jane Austin promenading in the afternoons!!

There was a Mr Whippy van in one of the parking areas and I couldn't resist a soft serve with a flake and raspberry sauce - OMG how the hell did I eat them when I was a kid, it was sooooo sweet!!!!  Neither of us could finish so we surrupticially dropped the ice cream behind the seat we were sitting on - not 2 minutes later the grey squirrels started to arrive one cheeky bugger actually picked up the cone and proceeded to sit behind us munching away on it!! You can see why the native red squirrels have been pushed out.

Leaving the squirrels behind we walked back to the hop on hop off bus and made our way back into central Bath and then strolled back to our hotel tired but happy.