This time my photos are actually in chronological order. I outwitted the machine by uploading backwards. Take that!
Of course the heading of this post refers to the town of Bath and my trip there, not to my habits of personal hygiene. (They're impeccable).
So the first building shown is the Bath pump house, where one takes the waters: also, incidentally, used at the hospital to treat rheumatism and gout! The Romans used the water too. It's got a long history.
Then there's the abbey, right next to the pump house. Quite impressive but apparently because it's not a cathedral Bath can't really qualify as a city. Obscure but apparently true.
The houses are some of those we doorknocked. Very nice area. One had two bells, for trades and vsitors.
When we'd finished we walked off to lunch at some people's house. Across the Avon (as in Stratford-Upon) pictured in the fourth photo, and past some parks near the Avon (fifth photo).
Bath was a really beautiful town. I loved the architecture, austere yet elegant. I would certainly love to live there and see what the lifestyle is like.
Only an hour and a half from London on the train too so relatively easy access.
2 comments:
Wow - love the architecture and the countryside. A definite English air.
Bath is kind of cool - apparently the wearing of swords was banned there, on the supposed grounds that they may damage ladies' dresses. Of course, rendering duelling in the streets impossible would have been only a positive side effect...
When you mentioned about a cathedral making a town a city, I realised that Mediaeval II refers to that - I was quite surprised to learn anything from the game. Unconscious improvement!
Did Bath make you think of Jane Austen - particularly Pride & Prejudice - or more of the Romans?
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