From Wales to Bath To Bournemouth

Bath Bridge - part of this World Heritage area

We left a cold and wet Wales quite early in the morning after a lovely stay in our B&B and drove back to England; to Bath in fact. Bath was wet and crowded and its roads were clogged. It took us a very long time to reach the city centre from its outskirts. Our traffic crawling finally landed us close to town and in our hurry to find a park we pretended we were a bus and parked in a bus and coach parking lot. We paid our money and no one seemed to take offense.

A few of us joined the Mayor's free walking tour of the city and it proved to be be no money well spent. In other clearer words it was good value. It was an interesting guided lesson into Bath's long and varied history, its current architecture and stories of some of the individuals that made a considerable mark on Bath today.

The Circus

Post tour we again crawled slowly out of Bath and had a long trip to the south coast of England; to Bournemouth to be precise. No sat nav proved slightly expensive in terms of time but eventually we found our hotel. Insult was added to injury as we had to limit our late meal time selections to only half of an already small selection.  Still fuel was provided.....

Today, it is certainly, worth a mention was June Harris's birthday. And we celebrated by popping the cork on some champagne and, of course, cutting a cake. And because we had done both of these things we decided to eat a piece of cake and drink some champagne...