Bath

We spent our day in Bath.  Bath is a 2000 year old city established by the Roman’s and is best known for the public baths set up to take advantage of its naturally warmed spring water.  Later the English felt that the waters had medicinal powers and set up hospitals and of course a big church.  We took a two hour walking tour of the city led my a older resident of the city who reminded me of Julia Child.

Afterwards we found a site nearby that was part of English Heritage.  We had purchased the 16 day English Heritage card which provided access to over 100 sites including Stonehenge.  We visited the remains of a castle build in the 1300s by the Hungerford family.   Over time the family hit hard times and sold their castle around 1700 for salvage,  parts which can be found in another castle nearby.