This past weekend, I spent my birthday visiting Bath with a couple of friends. Bath is about a 2 hour train ride outside London and is a world heritage site. It is known for its hot springs and Georgian architecture. Here we are coming out of the Bath train station.
We spent the first few hours wondering around the city and checking out the beautiful buildings. Here is a picture of a row of residential houses, laid out in a crescent built in the 1700's.
The houses were enormous and if you looked down in front of each home (past the railing), many of them had wonderful basement gardens.
As we walked around the city, we saw a lot of blocked up windows. In the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a glass tax and many people bricked up their windows so they would be taxed less (I learned this on a walking tour a few weeks ago!).
During the day, we also visited the Roman baths. The baths were built over 2,000 years ago!
My favorite photo of the day..the baths with the Bath Abbey in the background.
The Roman baths have not been completely excavated. But you can walk through different parts of the large compound and see where rooms use to be.
We took an audio guided tour. Here is Helen and Jessica listening.
Some of the pools were very pretty. Strange to think thousands of years ago Romans were walking around the place naked! :)
After the baths, we headed to the river to walk around.
We ended our day in a park drinking champaign and eating cupcakes for my birthday. It was a great day!
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Kerry! Happy Belated Birthday! I am finally caught up on the blog. What amazing travels you've had! That's great that you were in Bath. Ian's Uncle Rodney lives just outside of Bath and Rodney's daughter, Naomi, lives in Bath. Your pictures are a lot like Ian described it to me. Although I've been MIA, I've thought of you often and am keeping tabs on you through Sandra. Now that Obama is president, will you come back to the States??? :)
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