Bath

As a side trip, I decided to venture off to Bath, England, overnight - about 3 hours bus ride from London. In case you're unfamiliar, Bath is known for it's Roman Baths that were left undiscovered until 1800's or so. As usual, I didn't do much research into the details. Had heard from several friends and other travelers that it was very lovely. I just figured this place had a few baths and nice buildings!

To my surprise, this is not just a town with a few swimming holes. But rather, the ruins of the Roman Empire - a very sacred and spiritual meca for them. Quite astonishing, really. Unfortunately, a good portion of the ruins are lost however, they were able to digitally (looks like an autocad program of some sort) display in 3D what the temple would have looked like 2,000 yrs ago! Absolutely stunning. And to think that the plumbing system they built back then still works today pumping in 250,000 gallons of water each day. http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/
The romans ruled 3/4ths of modern Europe back then but when the empire collapsed, so did the walls of the temple leaving everything in ruin and practically underground, undiscovered. The british discovered 2 of the baths apparently back in the 18th century but the rest of it was left untouched until later.

The attraction was impressive. As you look at the website though, notice that only the lower portion of the walls of the King's bath are Roman. The rest was built by the English with limestone in an attempt to restore how it might have looked.

The city of Bath is beatiful and the people I found to be very sweet calling me "lass" & "my love". A somewhat romantic villa however, I hear it gets mad with tourists in the summer, especially on the weekends. Mid week proved to be manageable and my hostel, The White Hart, was excellent.

Well, hard to put into words the amount of history that is not only in this town but throughout Britain and Ireland as a whole.