Bath

Our favorite site during our trip was the town of Bath about 2.5 hours outside of London. We arrived into London Heathrow airport from SF at about 7am. We got to the Paddington Train Station and then took the first train to Bath arriving at around 10am.

Bath is known for...what else...it's Roman Baths dating from about 300B.C. It's continuously fed from an underground spring that bubbles up into a smaller "Sacred Spring" and then diverted to the Bath House. Supposedly the water is full of minerals which makes it green. People used to sit for hours in the water to cure all kinds of illnesses.

Aside from the Roman Baths, the town is just small enough to see in one day. We took a free and very entertaining and informative 2.5 hour walking tour of the city with a long time resident volunteer named Malcolm (no tips allowed either). It's a beautiful town with lots of history. All the buildings in Bath are required to have their fronts made of the local limestone. The streets are narrow and very quaint. They reminded me of the back lots at Universal Studios cuz they look almost as if they're fake.

The 3 tenors once sang at a big celebration for the town (i forgot what for) in the grassy area in front of the curved row of adjoining houses called the Crescent.