The day after Thanksgiving, we headed to the historic English city of Bath, about a 3 hour drive from our house. Harmony's mother came to visit us for Thanksgiving, so it was great to have some extended family along for the trip. This was our first overnight trip since moving to England.
The main attraction in the City of Bath are the well-preserved ancient Roman baths. During part of its reign, the Roman Empire extended into present-day England. The Romans used some natural hot springs at this location to build a vast labyrinth of baths and bath houses. You can go to their website if you want to know more.
(Above) A view of the main bath.
(L) The upper level of the complex, including the statues, was constructed within the last few hundred years, long after the Romans departed. Bath Abbey is in the upper left of the photo. (R) Nnnrrrraaaauuum! Lucas insisted in bringing his airplane with him during the tour.
(L) Lucas did a good job staying out of the water, which is a remarkable feat for him since he loves splashing. (R) Inside the underground bath complex was this Roman-built channel for the hot springs water.
Bath Abbey was right next to the Roman Baths. Although it is one of the smaller churches we've seen in Europe, it was still really pretty inside and out. As is common in many old churches throughout Europe, there were a lot of people entombed inside the church. You can see some tomb markers in some of the photos below.
(L) This guy who was dressed up in an old-English style was trying to advertise the Jane Austen museum, which we didn't visit (thank goodness!) (R) The Bath Christmas Market was going on during our visit, which was a nice surprise since we didn't know about it in advance.
Below: Harmony, her mother, and the boys went to the Bath Fashion Museum after we visited the hot springs. I opted not to visit that museum and took a free 2-hour walking tour of bath, where the guide showed us the variations of architecture present in Bath. Some of my pics from the walking tour are below.
(R) The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 townhouses along a crescent-shaped road. It is apparently considered one of the greatest examples of Georgian architecture in England. My pic is pretty bad since it was raining.
(Above) The Occupy Wall Street movement has even made it to Bath, UK.
2 comments:
Georgian architecture? I never saw any buildings like that in Georgia and I certainly wouldn't bathe in that wee wee/diahrea water. Are you kidding me? But the boys are awesome. Thank you for the post. I love to see the photos of the things you guys are doing.
You didn't go to the Jane Austen house?! Aaron! Well, I guess everyone can't be an Austen fanatic like myself. And the Fashion Museum was fun, even Frank liked it. Though the 2 hr walking tour is pretty cool too, so I'm glad you got to go do that. We really liked Bath, I'd like to go back sometime. Wish we were there to go traveling with you guys!
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