Bath

I really enjoyed the trip to Bath.  I found the architecture to be very interesting and the technology of the baths was incredible.  There were many places in the bath house that caught my eye like the sauna room and the collection of Roman coins.  I also found it interesting that the bath water was believed to have medicinal properties.  The thing that interested me most was that the bath house was not divided by class at all.  I didn’t expect that at all, I had expected the bath house to have multiple rooms for different classes or just not have let poor people in when it was used as a bathhouse.  I’m curious as to why it wasn’t divided by class at that time.  I didn’t get to see much of Bath so I can’t speak for the entire town but I could tell it was different from London.  The biggest difference was the size, Bath is so much smaller than London.  One thing I noticed about the architecture was that a lot of the buildings looked very similar, some buildings stood out but many looked the same and most were tan with grey roofs.  Besides seeing the Roman Baths we also got afternoon tea at the pump room which is definitely one of my favorite things that we have done.  I don’t like tea so I was mainly in it for the food but the tea was surprisingly good.  I ordered Darjeeling tea and while I still had to add milk and sugar I didn’t have to add a ton like I usually would have to make coffee or tea drinkable for me.  Onto the food, it was incredible.  I started with these little sandwiches that had salmon in one, egg in another, and the last one I can’t remember.  Next was this little pancake with something and a bit of caviar and another that I had no idea what it was but it was really good.  Next was scones with clotted cream and jam, and while they were good I didn’t think they were any better than Shawn’s homemade scones with clotted cream and jam.  Last was the desserts, there was a pistachio and blueberries tart thing, a raspberry cake, and a chocolate something.  To be perfectly honest nothing by itself was 10/10 perfect in every way the best thing was probably an 8.5/10, but all together it was amazing and as an experience it was unforgettable.