Bath was very different than the rest of London. The Roman influences in the architecture of London are for the most part pretty subtle, however, in Bath, it was really bold and clear. There were statues of gods and places for offerings. I am not really an architecture guy but I can spot when buildings are not the same and the Roman baths looked nothing like the rest of London.
The water at the baths looked icky and green and an employee said that someone in the 70s swam in it and then died. As much as I wanted to slurp up the green death water I refrained.
I also did not listen to the handheld tour guide at all because I did not like the idea of me effectively being on the phone having a one-sided conversation with a stranger for three hours when I could just read the plaques and discuss it with those around me.
At the end of the baths, we got to take a little taste of the clean nondeath-causing water. The water was a 3/10 and a cool guy who worked there said if we drank too much we will get a kidney stone or something… I don’t know I was playing pokemon go at that point.
While in Bath we visited the Marry Shelley Museum and I loved it. A few semesters ago (it was two) I took a class on adaptation and it used Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a base for that goal, so I came into this museum with a lot of knowledge of both her and the story.
As I said, I loved this museum, I was messaging my friend from Kentucky about it on Discord because he loves Frankenstein and he was super jealous. I will say the only part I did not like was the basement because it was just a haunted house and haunted houses make me so unprecedently mad. I mean, how dare those people who I paid to scare me try and scare me! The nerve! Don’t they know who I am?! I have a Paddington keychain on my backpack so I have to watch out for me AND my baby. Anyway, I had a good time, I should probably email my Frankenstein professor and tell her about my trip.
They had a wall that was just this image, which I loved because it is one of my favorite images of the monster.
You should also check out this comic I made for that Frankenstein class I was in (hopefully the link works):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ng_4_2jWOP2CIHGCmbpLx_t7P1WLA3oV/view?usp=sharing
We got sandwiches after the museum and I got a ham and cheese. The guy put it on a brunt baguette and he put WAY too much butter on it. It was a good sandwich it was just more butter than it was…food. That part was not really important but I needed it get it out of my system.
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