Blogs from Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 18

The plan had its genesis when the adverts came on the telly. Flopped out on the settee, feet up on the pouffe, I had downed a couple of cans of beer. Inevitably, nature had taken its course and I felt a nagging need to be elsewhere. In the busy lives we lead today it's sometimes difficult to find time to just take off and indulge one's urge to get away but I reckoned I had at least 2 minutes before 'Murder, She Wrote' resumed and, having had the notion, I couldn't shift it - by hook or by crook I was going upstairs to the bathroom. Read on:... read more

This I promise will be a very short blog! Getting to know England further.....and this time it was Bath. A beautiful city with so much history and is also a World Heritage City . Baths history commences in approximately 1 AD when the Romans thought it would be a great place to set up an outpost to their empire- a little bit far from Rome but nonetheless they left their imprint on the city. Bath was a fortified city which contained a spectacular Bath 'complex' dedicated to the 'gods' who were the only ones who could produce hot springs!! They are the only hot springs in England! The complex was later built over and ruined for many hundreds of years after the romans left (approx 60AD). Bath's second high-profile era was the eighteenth century, when the ... read more

In his book, London 2007, the travel writer, Rick Steves, describes Bath as the perfect weekend getaway from London. He said it is easy to tour the city on foot (true) and there is plenty to see and do. Bath has a great nightlife and good small restaurants that are not too expensive. He praised the Georgian architecture (we Yanks call it Colonial style), especially John Wood’s complex of buildings which form a Circus (circle) and Royal Crescent (half moon shape). A few days before our trip we watched a documentary about John Wood in which the host ecstatically praised Wood’s architectural achievement in Bath. So we were prepared for an interesting, fun weekend. When we actually saw Wood's Circus and the adjoining Royal Crescent, we were quite disappointed. The facades of most of the houses ... read more

Here we are at Thursday, of the Angela and Larissa "take the UK by storm" tour! After our wild night tracking Orlando Bloom, we decided it was time to sleep in, and that we did! It was really a remarkable idea, and we both really enjoyed not waking up at 7 or 8. Our plan was to head to Bath by train, which we knew would take about 90 minutes and bring us to a famous part of England. The train trip was once again a nice journey and we "alighted" and followed the signs. It is so easy to find these places by train, which is really a nice thing. You just hop off and there you are it seems! The first thing we came upon was the Cathedral, so that's where we began. ... read more

Or, a "mini-break" and Bridget Jones would call it. After a full week’s work, it was definitely time to get out of London for a while. The destination was Bath, somewhere I have always wanted to go. The first stop on the tour was Stonehenge. Hmm, Adam and I found the whole Stonehenge thing quite confusing. We knew that we were supposed to be amazed and marvel at this world heritage listed prehistoric site, but seriously, are they kidding? I am not going to say anything more for fear of being a disrespectful, but for those of you who have been and marvelled…please explain? Anyway, quite fittingly, after standing on tippy-toes to take a photo over the barbed wire fence, the batteries in our camera died and being in the middle of nowhere - just ... read more