Back to Bath

We decided, yesterday, we needed another trip into Bath as we hadn't managed to see all the sights on our first trip because of the traffic. This time we drove to the Park and Ride and took a bus into the centre, much easier and less stressful. We wanted to visit the Roman Baths and the Abbey so once we had orientated ourselves and found a map we headed straight there.

The Abbey and Roman Baths are next to each other so we didn't have far to walk.

We went into the baths first and found it very interesting and amazing that the Romans were able to build something so functional which could still be used today. It is apparently the only source of hot water springs in the UK with 1.25 million litres of water passing through the baths every day.

This stone shows that the baths were around in 76AD.

A model of what the baths would have looked like when first built.

We didn't really fancy having a swim in this green water!!

One of the Romans they left behind!!

After visiting the baths we decided it was time to have a coffee and piece of cake, not cheap but very nice, banana and chocolate. While there we got chatting to a young girl from America, Virginia Beach we think she said. She was in the UK for a 3 week holiday on her own, she said it was a graduation gift to herself so she couldn't have been more than 24. She had been staying in London and had come on a coach trip to Bath and Stonehenge, then she said she was off to Scotland via Manchester and Liverpool.

We then had a walk around the Abbey another impressive building which has stood at this spot for hundreds of years.

I thought this ceiling was amazing.

I wonder how long this chap has been riding around Bath!!

Like a lot of cities today there were a number of buskers around, the chap in the background played spanish style music on his guitar very well and just around the corner was a young women singing classical songs.



We managed to find our way back to the right bus stop after a pleasant afternoon in Bath and were soon on our way back to our caravan.

Well we have packed up most of our things today ready for an early start in the morning. We set off tomorrow for Cornwall and have booked into a site near St Austell. So my next blog will be from there when we have got settled in.