Bath

11 Jun 15

In the morning I took a walk around the various footpaths of Stanton Drew as the actual roads are frighteningly narrow and not worth the risk to walk along. Most of the paths were through milking cows pastures which is slightly safer.
:)

One of the paths I was on lead from the fields to the milking shed and it was hard packed soil and slightly depressed. I'm assuming that the milking shed hasn't moved dramatically from it's current position for the last thousand years or so (considering the village's church was built in 1341), that would mean this path has been used for at least hundreds of years. It's things like that I love.

Bath was wonderful. A clear warm day was perfect for climbing into our Regency period clothes and walking the streets of Bath. In fact, by the end of the day I had removed my stock, jacket and unbuttoned my shirt.

The Bath exhibition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Baths_%28Bath%29) has improved dramatically since we were there in 1999. Before you walked up and saw the central bath and that was about it. Now, as much as possible, you can see the entire site with finds, audio guides and even video displays.

We then retired to the Pump Room (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Pump_Room) for lunch for their High Tea. A beautiful place with so much history. We even took in a refreshing drink of the spring water.

As we bought a family, super saver ticket, we visited the Fashion Museum in the afternoon and then reasted in 'The Circus' a beautiful set of homes built from 1742 looking into a central park. A great place to lie down and watch a bike race that was also occurring in the town and playing havoc with the traffic.

After the GPS played silly buggers with us, we're now at the Horse and Groom in Westbury, just down the road from the White horse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbury_White_Horse). Maybe the intent for tomorrow walk. Tomorrow's adventure will take us to Longleat.