The city of Bath

Last week end we did an over night trip to Bath. We found a women that would watch Coach and 25 while we were away. In England you hire a person to stay at the house to watch your cat and dog. For  the last few weeks we have been looking for someone to do this. Its kind of like looking for a new baby sitter, get names and references to make sure of the person.

We left around 9:30 and got to Bath around noon, same as the other weekend trips, we rode the Bus, Tube and then Train. It was a little cooler than the last few trips, low 60's and cloudy.
Bath was founded by the Romans in AD 60, when they walked by a stream and someone said "get the soap we have hot water"!

This is the actual history  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath,_Somerset

When this was built it had a roof over it and the water would have been clear. The sun makes the algae form and that's why the water is green. The pool is lined with lead from roman times and does not leak.

View from the bath level, there were other rooms that had other baths with hot and cold water and also steam rooms. In the steam rooms the floors were heated from underneath and water was thrown on to create the steam.

Next to the Roman Baths was Bath Abby. It was founded in the 7th century and was rebuilt in the 12th  and 16th century.

Another view of the Abby, hard to believe it was built so long ago. 

another view from a different angle

Before she was queen, Princess Victoria visited Bath for an event and a local reporter said that she dressed dowdy. When she hear this she decide never to return to Bath. When she became queen and the royal train was going thru Bath she had all the blinds closed on the train. She didn't want to see them and she did not want the people of Bath to see her. 

Rule#1 don't ever piss off the Queen

The town was very easy to walk around,

 Views of Pulteney Bridge, the small buildings are shops that are on each side on the bridge.

 View of the Avon river

 The next two pictures were on the other side of the river, this was considered the suburbs

We have noticed a lot of streets in England have a long arch to them.

From this point we hopped on an open topped tour bus for a ride around the out skirts of town

 I just couldn't pass taking a picture of this sign.

 This was the entrance to a local garden, we never get tired of looking at the old buildings.

And of course there are more canals and locks. 

These two locks were about a 1/8 of a mile away from each other.

After the tour bus we did more walking until we came to the circus

Not in the way we would think of circus

This Circus consists of three long, curved terraces, it was started in 1754.  

After the circus (with no clowns) we walked to another big site to see in Bath, The Royal Crescent

This building is 30 town house that were started on the ends and met in the middle. Also the designer just built the front facade and the individual owners hired there own builder to finish the back. It was started in 1767. Most of the stone used around Bath is called Bath stone, a type of lime stone.

A Roman wall, to keep the troops busy and not bored a lot of walls were built.

"you can have a bath after you build me a wall"

Another beautiful street, this was on our way to town in the morning.

And no trip to Bath would be complete with out a stop at the "House of Radiators". As you can see the store is closed, so this gives us another reason to go back to this wonderful town.