Bath Time

Today we had a look around the city of Bath. It is very lovely with all of the buildings in the light coloured sandstone.

We got a bargin breakfast and lunch from the Tesco on our way into town. I think this will be our way to stay in budget for the trip!!! Yum croussaints :)

We decided that a coffee hit was needed so sat in the square in front of the Bath Abby and watched the buskers. The best one was a dude playing this amazing metal drum thing. I'm sure jeremy could tell you how it worked (something about dimples? He's gone to bed so i can't ask) but to me it just looked like he was playing a upside down metal basin, with beautiful sounds coming out of it. Impressive

We looked around the beautiful Abby and took the tour up the tower. Of course we couldn't resist climbing up it!! We got to see not just the view from the top but to see the bells (and i got to ding one, it was loud) and the ringing room (I so want to try bellringing) and to go inside the clock!!!



From the top of the tower we had spotted a pretty park with deck chairs in it. we didnt manage to get a deck chair (half of bath seemed to be out enjoying the sunshine on a Saturday afternoon!!) but we got a nice shady spot on the grass to people watch and chill. Kids are so funny, we watched one wee girl chase the pidgons for the whole time we were there without stopping, man they have a lot of energy!!!

After lunch it was time for the Roman Baths. These look just like th pictures and are pretty cool with heaps of information and a free audio guide. Unfortunatly but this time we were both pretty over it and so i just listened to all the kids commentry (shorter and more interesting) and we sped through the end of it. We decided that we couldn't really miss the Circus and Royal Crescent so wandered through the pretty streets up to have a look and then back down through the park to the car.



On the road again, we are finding that we are getting used to the strange driving here. The road rules are a bit different (you don't give way to cars turning right if you're turning left at an intersection) and there are heaps of Massive roundabouts which are a bit scary!!! We bought a better map now tho so we can tell where we are meant to be going which helps!!!!

On the way to Sailsbury where we are now we visited the Branton Camp and White Horse, there is a horse shape cut into the chalk in the hillside, its pretty cool and there is also the remains of a longbarrow and Iron age hill fort.



I think that we must still look very young. We almost always get asked if we are students and although it is very tempting to say yes and then get the discount, obviously we don't have any ID!!! I guess that wearing our scruffy backpackers clothes we must just look like scruffy students. Although Jez must look very young, this morning he came down to the reception to wait for me, probably still half alseep from last night's experience and sat down on the chair in the lobby. The receptionist came up to him and asked if he was alright, Jez said he was just waiting, the dude replied "Oh waiting for your parents then" !!!!!!!