The Roman Baths

I was unable to attend the group on their journey to Bath. I was still very sick as I had only first started having symptoms 5 days before. This bummed me out immensely because visiting the Roman Baths was one of my top things that I was excited to do. So needless to say, I was very sad about not being able to attend. 

Luckily for me, I was able to visit the roman baths over the three day break that we had. Leah, Margret and I went on Monday June 13th in the morning via train to Bath. Leah had found, planned, and bought mine and Margaret’s train tickets so that we could make it to Bath. The train ride on the way was beautiful countryside that I had not yet seen in London. Rolling green hills, small towns, and cows as far as the eye can see. The train arriving to Bath and seeing this city? Town? Place., was a beautiful view. 

We walked around the town for about 30 minutes and found this amazing little shop of hard carved wooden statues or boxes or sculptures. It was such an interesting experience to hear this man talk about how he had been making things for thirty five years! He also talked a lot about how he loved this very specific type of wood that is only found in Africa. 

I had got tickets for Margeret and I for 12:30, and we finished our tour around 3 PM! We spent two and a half hours exploring and listening to every single audio guide. It was one of the most enjoyable experiences I have had on the trip. One of the craziest parts of the whole experience was seeing just how deep into the group the Roman Baths were. They were several meters lower into the group. Layers and layers of sediment and dirt and rocks that have been stacked over thousands of years. So that was super neat. How the Roman baths work is also very interesting. It is a natural spring that is under pressure; the heated water rises along fissures and faults in the limestone, until it bubbles up from the ground into the baths. The Romans then created a series of tunnels to get through the ridges of the ground to create a slightly slanted pineline so as to not stagnant the water.

Afterwards we went to the Jane Austen Museum and had afternoon tea! It was delightful and quite lovely. It was filled with Scones, cream, jams, cakes, macaroons, finger sandwiches and (for myself) hot coco.