Splish Splash

Yesterday we took our first day trip out of the city, and our destination was the once Roman city of Bath. We took the tube to Paddington station where we unfortunately spent very little time, as we had to immediately attempt to board the train. I say attempt because we all had reserved seats, but apparently British folk are just as confused as us and it ended up being a free for all of who sits where. The random girl I sat next to was watching Grey’s Anatomy, but sadly I didn’t get to see if the patient in the episode got her rare blood transfusion or not 😦

The train itself was alright, I like a good train and this one was reasonably comfortable, but I didn’t get a good view out of the window unfortunately. But what I did see of Bath coming into the city made me really excited to explore. Bath is so hilly and the buildings really follow the landscape, making it a really beautiful place to wander. Some of us went to the Mary Shelley museum in town where we saw all things Frankenstein, including a screening of the 1910 film and a haunted house in the basement. Then we went and got some sandwiches from a small restaurant that was really great apart from the 90 degree temperature inside, I don’t know how that man works there all day.

Finally we got to see the titular feature of the town, the site of the Roman baths, and they were cool to see. I found the town surrounding them to be more interesting than the baths themselves, but there were some fun parts like a really nice tour guide we talked to for a bit or the amount of phone related jokes we could make because of their “award winning audio tour”. Then there were some not so fun parts, like the old underground bath smell or the end of the tour when you can taste the water, which has so much iron that it tastes bloody and is so warm that it feels like pee.

Apart from the kidney stones I’ll probably get from all the minerals I drank in that sip, the trip to Bath was really fun, a little exhausting but definitely worth it.