Bath anybody?

Another weekend and another chance to get out and see the country. This time I jumped on the train and headed to Bath. While the City itself is lovely, one of its main attractions are the Roman Baths. The Bath springs are the only hot springs found in the UK. Water rises here at the rate of over a million litres a day within the courtyard of the Temple of Sulis Minerva and water from it feeds the Roman baths which were built in 43 AD (along bloody time ago!)


Since the roman times the baths have undergone lots of changes as people continued to use them for healing and relaxation but it is amazing to think that you are walking on the original paving slabs around the Baths. Exhibits and Roman artifacts include a famous stone relief of the Gorgon's Head, mosaics, stone coffins, and a gilded head from a statue of Sulis Minerva.


Amazingly it is not just 1 pool but a series of rooms each with its own purpose. Roman bathing was based around the practice of moving through a series of heated rooms, saunas, and baths culminating in a cold plunge at the end.

So here endeth another history lesson.