Bath Spa!!!

I think the sign says it all:

The sign at the entrance.

I think a journey to the Roman Baths is completely worth it for anyone interested in Roman history, or history in general.... After paying for entrance, you start out your tour on this balcony overlooking the biggest spa in the entire complex.  This is also one of the few spas that still has water in it.

 From here, you prceed to the mini museum.  And by mini, I mean small rooms that are packed with historical artifacts, so kind of like the British Museum in mini form.....  Most of the artifacts were found by excavating the site over the years.  They have found gravestones, statues, sacrificial alters, and the list goes on.  This picture displays what would have decorated the space above an entrance to a building.  This was particularly cool, because as there are only a few pieces of stone left, they have recreated in black and white what it would have looked like completed and projected it on the remaining stones.  And then they overlay it in color, so we can get an idea of how it would have been painted when the Romans actually lived there.

And then on the way out, you go by the Pump Room.  We were going to try to have tea here after the tour, but the line was out the door and into the next county, so we decided against it and went on to M&S for tea there.



Tomorrow we'll be staying at Ruth's Aunt's house and hopefully have a relatively lazy Sunday!

Cheers!

KM