Bath

Monday, March 10th, 2014

Bath and Bath Cathedral

John had some internet work to do this morning, so Dottie took me for a walk. She told me it was a route that she used to do regularly with her late dog. We walked through forests and meadows and over hills and through valleys, past some old English country homes and through some gates where you had to kiss each other on the cheek! Wonderful hike and it took us in a circle back to her home.

John finished up shortly after we got back and we left Great Missenden to go to his home in Exeter. We took the route to Bath. John was talking about this city as a midpoint between Exeter and London, where Dottie and he might settle. The city is beautiful and made mostly of marble. We walked around the downtown area and had a tour of Bath Abbey, which is a magnificent old cathedral. From there we went to the baths, not the old Roman ones, which were under restoration, but a new one built next door and using the same thermal waters. This building had three floors and John had prebooked us a package tour. We went into four hot steam rooms, from warm to hot and then a long soak in a large warm pool on the roof with a view over the city while we watched the sunset.  Finally he had booked a dinner at the in-house restaurant. We went to our lockers and I asked John if he was changing for dinner and he said yes, so we dressed and carried our jackets up to the restaurant. When we were seated we laughed because we were the only ones dressed, everyone else was in their white bathrobes. So, we had a romantic dinner for two, fully dressed. We ate a really heavy pork dinner with bread pudding and a beer. As we left we walked past the Abbey which was all lit up.

When we left Bath for Exeter we stopped at a convenience store to buy milk and toilet paper. We arrived at John's late and I had a tour of the place before we sat and talked for a bit before heading off to bed. My room was John's studio where he makes videos for his work. So we had to move all of his equipment and set up a single bed in the corner.