Bath is perhaps the most urban stop on our tour. It's fawn coloured apartments spread up a hill side. From the street side they are all the same style with mostly small decorative differences. Unseen are wonderful private terrace gardens along the rear. They are about four stories with small garret room at the very top.
The city is very European and cosmopolitan.
Our first destination the historic Roman Bath site.
The very oldest stone relics indicate that the romans were there in the first century AD.
The central bath is surrounded by figures that honor the early Roman visitors.
The central baths. Early arrival means not many people to avoid with the camera.
I wonder how many have tread upon these stones before me, and who they were.
How luxurious to be the only bather in this ancient slendor.
The west bath, quite mysterious with the reflective lighting.
I could gaze at light dancing of water for hours. To deeply meditate on the reflecting magic touches my soul.
The truly elegant Pump Room, Ahh morning coffee with the strains of a classical trio playing in the background.
Bath Abbey
Another font.
Street flower vendor
The Assembly Rooms ball room. Two balls a week during the season ... All those gowns to choose.
The Circus. A premiere address indeed.
The Royal Crescent , an address with so much more.
A small bit of Victoria Park.
A Sally Lunn Bun for tea. First baked on this site in the year 1100
Sally Lunn's the oldest house in Bath, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and I have had tea and buns here.
Bath proved to be an elegant, charming and wonderous World Hetitage Site to visit.
I've read about it all in both historical novels and history books - the Pump Room, the Assembly Room, the Roman baths, the Royal Crescent AND Sally Lunn Buns!!! Did you say hi to Charles Dickens and Jane Austen? Doesn't it make you extra sad to think we destroy anything older than 20 years old out here? Modernism - yeccch.
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