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East Bath

We spent almost 2 hours going through the museum with periodic walks through some of the other rooms in the baths. Besides the Great Bath we also saw the deeper and more private East Bath. In this section we saw what the various bath rooms looked like drained of water. The Romans employed a very sophisticated and intricate way of using the hot spring water to keep certain rooms very warm, while other rooms were purposely filled with cold water. The crazy Romans loved to run around naked alternating between dips in hot and freezing cold water.
Day Thirteen (Sweating through Bath, Stonehenge and London)

July 25th 2006
Despite the lack of air conditioning I got a good night's sleep in my rather modern looking hotel room. Breakfast was unexceptional again. I guess the breakfasts I find unappetizing are the continental ones. This morning's was primarily cereal products and toast. Give me bacon, eggs and baked beans every time. The morning was already stinking hot as we tried to repack the every expanding pile ... read more
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