Bath

Yesterday we took a trip out to Bath, our second venture in leaving London and exploring what the rest of England has to offer. I was not disappointed. Bath is amazingly well preserved; the city’s crescent residential buildings, the Roman baths and the Bath Abbey have been well maintained and create a feel of historical grounding. Our trip overlapped with the end of the Bath Festival. Tribes of dancers and performers were entertaining crowds in all the city’s squares, and we were lucky to listen to the Bath Minerva Choir rehearse Mozart’s “Requiem” inside the Abbey. Unlike many of the other places we’ve visited in the last year and a half since we moved to London, Bath strikes the perfect balance between offering opportunities to learn history and sightseeing with shopping and entertainment.