The city of Bath, England, is famous for — its ancient Roman Baths! First, we’d seen London here, visited the British Museum here and here and here, Avebury henge, Stokesay Castle, Harlech and Conwy and Penrith and Ullswater, and later saw Scotland’s Kelpies…

The Roman baths of Bath are a fantastic bit of time-travel. The green bubbling waters are no longer available for soaking in. Once upon a time, they were said to cure just about anything, but then a young girl died from catching a bug while swimming there in 1978…

There’s a museum with artifacts and explanations of their glory days. Dioramas show the site in its glory days…

Back in the 1st century AD, this bather sported quite an intricate hair-do, front and back…


The gods were honored there…


Some people flung their prayers, or rather their curses, written on lead and pewter to people who stole their stuff while they bathed…

After a sample of safe-to-drink thermal water that’s piped in from nearby, we were ready for high tea there. Far more than a mere snack, the elegantly presented occasion included live classical music…

Our tummies full and our leftovers packed in a doggie bag, we visited Bath Abbey next door…

And walked along the river.

Are there natural baths, water, or mud or otherwise, around where you live?
Thanks for bringing me back to Bath, da-AL. My guy and I visited Bath about, um 30 years ago and loved the place. The good thing is that from your photos, it doesn’t look like it changed much! :–)
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Glad to help bring back good memories for you 🙂
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Love the fab photos. Your clever title just tickled me!
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Glad you enjoyed, Kally 🙂
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You travel to the most interesting places! Thanks for sharing your experiences with us!
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Wow, you did a lot while you were there! I went to Bath 2-3 years ago but it was a brief visit for the hospital there so I didn’t get to look around much. What I did see though was lovely. Stopped by the river part, where there’s a bridge over, for a coffee. And there were Christmas markets out at that time, too. I’d like to go back one day to actually look around properly as I’d really like to see the baths and Abby etc. The diorama is fantastic for giving you a snapshot of what it was once like there. I used to live closer to the Malvern Hills (heard of those?) Spring water there was fantastic, I used to go sometimes as a kid and we’d bottle some up. You’ve got some fab photos of your adventures 😊!!
Caz xx
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Thanks much, Caz, for the sweet snapshot of your own. Hope you get to visit in happy times soon 🙂
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Bath is a gorgeous city, even if you can’t go in the bath. The only other place I’ve experienced something similar is the Blue Lagoon in Iceland–so warm and lovely, but if you’re not careful, someone will steal your towel!
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Lolol & do people curse them to the gods?
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I loved your post on the city of Bath. I hope to visit it sometime in the future.
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Sending you my best that you will 🙂
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I love Bath!!!
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What’s not to love about it, right?
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😘😘😘
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It’s really beautiful there. Thanks for sharing your photos.
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We enjoyed our beautiful couple of days there 🙂
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I’ve never been to Bath. But now I want to!
JP x
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You live in London, right? You have no excuse not to!
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City of bath, this sounds intriguing! Just can’t imagine how these baths could be long long ago. 🙂
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