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- 27 mar 2018
- ☁️ 10 °C
- Wysokość: 47 m
- AngliaBradford-on-Avon51°20’28” N 2°14’30” W
Day 9 Bath ohh Bath
27 marca 2018, Anglia ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Off to Bath today and the weather is just awful, cold ++++ and wet and very miserable after yesterday’s sun, even though it was cold!
I don’t do cold very well since losing my weight! It’s something to do with the op apparently. Many sleevers have low cold tolerance post surgery! But I am trying to cope as best as I can!
We had planned to walk to the station to catch the train but as it’s so awful we drove there instead!
Made it ok lucky I was sticky beaking at another couple and see what they were doing as they were heading to Bath as well, or we would have ended up in a London instead we were on the wrong platform... all rectified after calling out to them across the track to see where they were heading, then once we realised a mad dash up and over to get our train! Once on the train there were all these ticket things on seats, mind you the train was very full.... we didn’t know what they were and without glasses these days I can’t see a thing. So we sat and hoped for the best! I found out on our way back that they are reserved for people who pay for them, but not always the whole way might be from one town to the next! I thought about this and decided it must an English thing a bit OCD in that people don’t like change and have to have same routine right down to their seat on a train.... me with my English heritage now realises where some of my silly idiosyncrasies come from! Bit sad really that a simple train journey and people need sameness, I am not that bad! I hope! Mind you I sit in nearly the same seat at church each week, if not the same seat the same area! Near the door so I can look out, when I should be concentrating.
We made it ok got out of the Stn and just as we were to cross the road in the miserable coldness saw a Hop on Hop off bus so ran to it and paid to do the trip as walking wasn’t looking real fun.... sadly though you couldn’t see out the window real well so very limited pics and there was no way I was sitting on top just far to freezing!
It was worth doing to hear the commentary about Baths history! Back in the day when Bath first became the people would be taken in a special chair that would carry them to the hot mineral baths and back home again, talk about pampered! They were literally taken from their beds to the baths without having to get out of bed and were taken back to bed again, by the carries! What privileged lives they sure had!
Anyway Bath is an Interesting city again I missed getting pics of the amazing Circus circuit unreal buildings even by today’s stands they are unreal, the weather was just too yukky to get a good shot!
After the trip on the bus we got off and wandered around, finding sights I wanted to get pics of and finding new sights! Had to stop as it was just so cold for a warm cuppa at a lovely little cafe warm and toasty didn’t want to leave! Both had a delight as it was too tempting not to, couldn’t eat all mine so took for RON. In our wandering as we got off track and a little lost, but in doing so found this amazing old church door I saw on the bus I couldn’t take any pics of it as to wet on the windows. So as John was working out how to get back on track I could take my pics! Only thing is the footpath is so narrow I had to keep stepping on the road to get my pics and had to time it between cars going by.... I managed it but not something one should do I know very dangerous and as we would say at home crazy bloody tourist what were they thinking!
After looking for quite a bit John decided we had to use the rest of our ticket to do the other 1/2 of the tour call the country tour the other was the city tour, so on a bus we got again only this time as the rain had stopped and the clouds were parting. But the cold up top was unreal, I did brave it got a few pics but didn’t enjoy it as much as I would like to being so cold. The guy commentating was unreal, he never drew a breath. John and I got off the bus laughing our heads off at just how much he could talk! To be honest we were mentally drained from just listening to him go on.... we decided to look for an English pub for lunch just needed to be warm and cosy and English pubs are just that! I love the way they decorate their pubs here so homely and quaint.... so many interesting prices to look at so very different to our cold bare pubs!
After our meal of soup for me and steak baguette for John time to head home, so back to the train Stn, a lot bigger than Bradford on Avon....
Again the train was packed, so finding seats difficult I got one on a reserved spot but turns out it was for the Stn after ours thank goodness John had to stand...
I was so pleased to be back in Our little cottage warm and cosy. I had to repack my suitcase as I couldn’t find snitching every time I used it. Sort out our food issue, as there will be no fridges from here on sadly. UK doesn’t have fridges in the room unless you pay dearer for your room or request one then you still pay for it. I discovered this on our last trip here when I had to juice every morning.... most nights I had to get ice bought to the room to keep my drink cool or place it in the fridge in the reception area.
Soup for dinner as easy to do, repacked then off to bed after a little TV for a change! The days are flying... Czytaj więcej
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