A day in Bath

Off to one of my most favourite cities in the UK, if not the world, it's Bath for us today. Parking is always fun here, but Mike managed to do some research for us while we slept so I was all prepared today. The drive is only around 1 hour 20 minutes from the cottage. We arrived in Bath by 11.30. Although the Southgate parking building was easily found, getting into it was a bit of fun, nothing a U-turn and going around the block again didn't fix.

The first point of call was the Hop-on Hop-off bus. Mum is finding all the walking a bit much so the best way to see the city to start with is the tourist bus. We decided to do the Skyline tour first that takes you out of the city a little and give you a good view of the city from the hills. I managed to take a bit of video on this trip.

Once we arrived back into the city we decided to find a bite to eat. I have always wanted to go to the Sally Lunn shop. The Chocolate butter Sally Lunn was my favourite. They are not like we get at home, but very nice.

From the Sally Lunn shop we were off to look at the central sights of Bath, mainly the Pump Rooms area.  There are a few tourists around today, and you can tell there are bus loads of people that get let off not far, the come quickly, take photos of the square and Pump Rooms and then they are off again. 

We then found the bus again for the city tour.  Now this was fun, there were issues with the microphone on this tour and there was one specific American who was being a little difficult, needless to say we were parked up for a good 15 minutes in the end while they tried to sort her headphones and the microphone out. Once we got going all was good, the streets weren't too busy and I managed to get a good seat up front again.

One of my favourite places to visit is the The Circus and the Royal Crescent, the buses can't go along Royal Crescent but they do take us around The Circus.

Once off the bus tour I left Mum for a bit in the main square by the Pump Rooms and headed off up the hill to my favourite boots store and a wonder around the shops.  While I was up the top of Bath's shopping area there happened to be a mishap with a sightseeing bus and a very new looking Mercedes.  The driver of the Merc was not impressed.

After 5 hours in Bath and with the shops closing we decided it was time to head back to our cottage. For the trip back I decided to take the motorway as it knocks about 20 minutes off our trip back, except, well there were roadworks along most of the M5. Most of the time we only managed 20mph, so the trip home was over 2 hours, not the best option.