Bath. May 13

After our amazing night at the theatre, we thought we'd try and make the week even better by going to Bath. We were both sooooo excited to go, and Ash was mainly very excited to see the circular street of houses (more details to come).

The weather, amirite.

V studious, v navigation

Again it was an easy trip by train, we are both very impressed by the trains here and how easy it is to get everywhere. We walked into the main part of the Bath and headed straight to the Roman baths. Included in the entry was an audio tour, which we both had a bit of fun with. There were some cool artefacts like lead tablets, on which the civilians would write down anything/one that was annoying them and throw them into the baths to pray to Minerva, Goddess of the baths, to basically get revenge. We thought this is a pretty cool system and maybe hoped we could also have a magic bath to throw in notes about everyone who drives us crazy haha. We also spent much time getting many, many photos of us next to the baths, like the best tourists ever. As you'll see in the pics, there was also this weird guy dressed up as a priest wandering around, so we made it our task to get him in as many photos as possible. Ash also became the best photographer ever and took heaps of pics of people posing (and of Elise too). Our audio tour ended with Ash's handheld audio guide giving up on life and beeping very loudly constantly and us dropping it off and running away, leaving everyone else to deal with the noise.

Sass queen on her phone/audio guide

Sass queen 2 on her phone/audio guide

Spot the weird priest guy (ie guy in white robe)

Duo photo 3

Ash's stranger posing pic #1

Ash's awkward photograher pic #1/ old women can't take photos

Ash's stranger posing pic #2

Sneaky Priesty #2

Awkward photographer #2

Ash's stranger posing pic #3

Ash's stranger posing pic #4

After leaving the Baths we walked around the town taking in all the cute shops and the incredible archee-tetch-cha. But actually it was the best ever and also the most consistent style of all the towns we've seen. We had lunch in a small cafe, the food was delish, and then headed out to find the round street. 

Ash had seen this round street on maybe Escape to the Country once and was determined to find it. It was the main reason she wanted to go to Bath. Elise was like whaaatt are you talking about. But once we found it (by stalking a walking tour group), boy were we happy. IT WAS THE BEST STREET EVER. Maybe a little overexcited but it was so cool. You'll see by the photos how excited Ash was. Apparently Johnny "I don't care about customs declarations" Depp lives in one of the houses, as well as NICOLAS CAGE GUYZ ! and other rich folk. (Also the street was called The Circus).

THE ROUND STREET (ash so cool)

STILL OBSESSED WITH ROUND STREET

AGAIN

MUCH WOW

Elise's 'can we leave yet?' face

After Ash recovered from this, we stalked the walking tour over to Royal Crescent. Another set of curve houses which overlooked a beautiful grassy park. We actually ended up bathing in the glorious sunshine for close to two hours, having the best day ever. So we could maximise the sunshine, we went over to the supermarket and got some dip and bread to take back as a picnic and then headed to Victoria Park. We managed to get a picnic spot in prime view of the setting up and letting go of two hot air balloons. It was very cool seeing this happen and enthralled us for over an hour.

Royal Crescent 

Elise + shirtless tanning babes/are they babes?

Ash ignoring Elise

The first ballon

Balloon one lift off and two being filled

'Woah balloons'- Ash

As the daylight was waning we headed into town to explore properly and also take many pics. We went to the Bath Abbey, which had a function on inside, but we snuck in a quick look. We then got some delicious ice cream and sat by the river taking it all in until about 9.30pm (it was still light out!) when we caught our train home to London.

Ash's stranger posing pic #5 (plus very focussed Elise)

Are those eyes faithful?

Because is one ever enough?

Lots of love, A&E.