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Trip to Bath

 

 

On the third of October we went to Bath with school. We left around 8 in the morning in a bus to bath, at half past 10 we arrived at Bath. Bath is a town on the countryside of southwest England, and known for the natural hot springs and the 18th-century Georgian architecture.

Frist we decided to get something to drink, because some of us needed coffee.

After this we went to the roman baths. This used to be a Bathhouse for the Romans. The baths were warmed by water witch bubbles from deep in the earth. We paid our entrance money and could use a free audio tour, in the beginning this was quite interesting, but there are a lot of things to listen to, and after a while we were done with listening and decided just to walk around the baths, and its museum.  I thought it was really awesome that the water was heated by the earth, and in some places you could see the water bubbling form the heat that came up.

After walking, and listening, for more than 2 hours, we got hungry and decided to leave the roman Baths and look for something to eat.

We finished our lunch and went to royal Victoria park; we walked by the Royal Crescent.

The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses. It is designed by the architect John Wood the Younger, and built between 1767 and 1774. From the 30 townhouses are 10 still full-size townhouses, 18 have been split into flats, one is turned into a museum, and the large central house at number 16 is turned into a Hotel (the Royal Crescent Hotel).

After some searching we also found the Botanical Gardens, these were formed in 1887. The gardens have many different trees, shrubs, a fine herbaceous border, there is a rock garden and pool, a collection of old shrub roses, and a replica of a Roman Temple. I thought the gardens were really beautiful, but it took quite a walk to get there, and if you don’t have a lot of time over there, I personally don’t think you have to see them. But if you have all the time of the world, it’s definitely not a bumper to see.

We still got some time before we needed to return to our bus, and we decided to see the Pulteney Bridge. Around 4 we were back at our bus, and started our journey back to school.