Bath

Thursday 29th July 2010
Bath - what can I say............ I really enjoyed this most of all the 'histerical' things we have seen.

The archaeological finds (as always) are amazing. This is from a tombstone - they believed that the person would have been an actor, because of the facial mask used. This was just one of many tombs, altars and a whole range of buildings and artifacts.
The baths themselves are quite amazing as well and when you start to look around and see the different rooms and their uses you start to think what makes us think we are civilised. Let me tell you - Wealthy Romans knew how to live! Spas, saunas, massages, servants..................

I really liked Bath. It was neat, clean and symmetrical.

This lion fashioned from succulents, cacti and grasses (eat your heart out, Uncle But), was fabulous, although we only saw it from the walkway above the park as we refused to pay a pound to go down into the gardens - we would have only been walking back to the car to leave......

Bath used to have tolls on all it's roads, so i imagine this building (one either side of the start of a bridge over the River Avon leading into Bath) was a toll house - basically it just took my fancy.

Every where you looked was pretty and pleasant. This is from the bridge mentioned above looking down along the river.

There was, of course, more churches than you can poke a stick at (just like most places here), but this one looked good viewed over the cricket field.

The cricket field is notable, not just because they were playing cricket on it at the time, but because Dr. W. G Grace (England's answer to Don Bradman) played here. There you go!