Bath

This past weekend, we decided we need to see more of the UK, more day trips. We decided to go to Bath, which is about a 90 minute train ride west of London. It was fantastic.

The key feature of Bath is that it is the site of Roman baths from about 2000 years ago. We went on a tour of the original roman baths, and it was amazing to see something that old. The most amazing things about the site for me were the fact that original pool has a lead liner, two inches thick, to protect ground water from entering the bath. Still water tight...2000 years later. The other was a story about how they lined one pool with concrete...but that with the fall of the Roman empire, the formula for concrete was lost for 1000 years. Doesn't sound like a "hot" technology, but amazingly interesting...at least to me. The last point of interest was that the Roman bath was covered over by houses for 1300 years, to be discovered again in the 18th century. Now that it has been excavated, it looks like it could easily be converted into a working bath now. It was amazing.

Not only were the Roman baths amazing, but Bath itself was a very lovely little town. Bath is a very cute town, great restaurants and a ton of shopping. We also went to a modern day spa/steam place, Thermae Spa - a very relaxing way to start a daytrip. I highly recommend a daytrip to Bath for anyone coming to visit. Stonehenge is also near by, although we didn't make it there.