A trip to Bath, I understand why its mentioned in many stories

As I walked around Bath, I felt as if I had left England and was walking around a coastal city in Italy. Something about the buildings felt as though they neighbored the sea, rather than took the place of what once was a forest, as the buildings feel in London. The buildings were made with bright colors like white or gray, while in London, many things are brown or brick red. In the places packed with stores, it felt like walking around a big outdoor mall rather than a city people live in. Once I saw the residential areas, I realized that this is not necessarily a place filled with tourists, it’s filled with people who live in the area too. I loved walking through the many alley ways because I saw and heard so many birds other than pigeons.

The other birds did not like hanging around people as much as the pigeons do, so unfortunately I did not get any pictures of them. I did find colorful doors lining an alley, and I think that makes up for it.

In Bath, I also visited the building that gives the city its name, the Roman Baths. I really loved learning about how the Romans believed that the baths had healing powers. I think that is something that many people still believe in today, the fact that any type of bath can heal. I did find it shocking that people still trusted the baths even though the water passed through lead pipes, which should have caused them some sort of illness. Of course, they did not know about the problems with lead back then, I am just surprised they were doing well enough to trust the water repeatedly.

At the end of the museum tour, they had flowing water so people could taste the healing waters of the bath. I tried some and it tasted very strongly of metal, but part of me wish I kept bags of tea on me because it felt warm enough to possibly brew tea, and I thought that might have been cool.

Even though Bath was a busy place packed with other tourists, something about the city still felt relaxing and quiet. I am very thankful I got to visit a place that I had read about in so many texts from my English classes; Bath really does have some magical and healing property about it.