After we visited the non-castle and Avebury Stone Circle, we continued to the town of Bath and checked in to our Hostel. Bath is here ->
We found Bath to be beautiful. It is the site of an old Roman Bath house which is build upon a natural hot spring. The Bath had several levels that you could visit (basically it was a museum) full of artifacts and pieces of buildings uncovered from that time. As with most tourist destinations, it had a decent helping of cheese and an indecent amount of tourists to spoil most of your photos. The cheese was in the form of people dressed up as Romans and videos of people pretending to be Romans doing Roman things, and also the statues that were on the balcony surrounding the main big bath - they had been commissioned for the tourist attraction but made to look original. Overall the place was fascinating and frankly a little awe-inspiring. It was just amazing to see things so old intact. We were impressed with the way the museum displayed bits of buildings which had been uncovered, and then filled in the rest themselves without taking anything at all away from the real artifacts. Here are our pics from it:
We also checked out the Bath Abbey. Like most old churches in Europe, it was gothic looking, loaded with history and tourists, and was pretty cool. Here it is:
The town planners of Bath have done a pretty good job ensuring that all new structures in Bath look similar to the really old ones, so it has a really nice continuity and old worldy feel. It felt a bit like Prague to us, which is to say we really quite liked it and might return to stay for a bit longer. Here are some happy snaps of the town in general:
