Bath Day 1 & 2

We moored part way down the Bath flight and walked the rest of the flight to the river and then walked up to Pulteney weir and bridge.

This is a favourite spot for the trip boats turning at the bottom of the weir, a few years back one got to close and capsized putting all the passengers into the water. Pulteney bridge is unusual as when you cross it by road you don’t realise its a bridge with buildings on both sides. One picture you don’t often see is the up stream side of Pulteney Bridge. where you can clearly see the backs of the buildings, not as glamorous as the down stream view.

We also did the real tourist thing and took the open top bus, what we didn’t realise at the time that the ticket not only covers you for 2 days but it also for two different tours, one around the town and one the outlaying district. Both trips lasted about an hour and its a good way to get an idea what’s in the town as they have a guide on each bus giving a commentary. The Royal Crescent

The stone work on lots of the buildings was something else.

The Circus from the top of the bus

Apart from have cake and tea at the Mad Hatters Tea rooms and a visit to Sally Lunn’s kitchen which has been uncovered under the shop showing the old ovens and some very long stalactites, that was the afternoon taken up.

 

On The second day we visited various attractions in the town. First was the Building of Bath Museum where not only did they have details of how the buildings were actually constructed but some superb models of completed buildings by Rosalind Hudson, these have to be seen to be appreciated. Not only was she a superb modeller but also a code breaker at Bletchley Park

This was followed by a visit to No.1 Royal Crescent  a Georgian house that has been returned to how it was in Georgian times. Its interesting that the people who use to live in these houses, often for only a few months while they came to Bath for the Season use to lease them. This particular house was leased buy the same man for 22 years so it has some history to it.

 

After a pleasant lunch we went to look at the Roman Baths. We went in the wrong door and had to walk all the way through the restaurant  to the booking hall, when we arrived it was packed, so I said to Diana “lets give this a miss” we went outside and the queue was almost to the Abbey. We did take one photo as we walked throughBeing Sunday the Abbey only did one tour of the tower so they had a long queue as well

On the strength of this we decided to walk up to The museum of Bath at work This turned out to be a good choice, we were the only ones in there and half the area is dedicated to J B Bowler’s soft drink bottling factory. The museum its self is set in an old Tennis Court built in 1777 and still has the bumps in the wall to deflect the ball.

This basically filed our first two days in Bath, but we would stop again on our return journey.