Bath

Bath is such a lovely little city! Visiting the baths was really interesting. They were built when the Romans occupied England (so way way way long ago) as a temple to Minerva, because what other explanation is there for water bubbling up from the ground? :) (Actually, you may be interested to know that the water comes from rainwater in a nearby lake that drips down through limestone until geothermal heat sends it right back up to the earth's surface in Bath) The best part was tasting the water, which was sort of like mineral-y tea...filtered through a lake...and limestone....and evaporated by geothermal heat...

I could go on and on about the other things we saw, like the Royal Crescent, where we visited a little museum about life in Bath in the 1800s. Did you know that when the ladies wanted to sit in the gentlemans' room with there was always a roaring fire, servants had to carry them in inside these little compartments so that they weren't exposed to the heat of the fire, because if they were, their makeup would melt off their faces? And that tea was such a delicacy that the lady of the house had to prepare the tea herself because she didn't trust the servants not to steal it? No. There is no way you knew that.

I'm going to stop now. I hope you enjoyed my useless facts :)

xoxo
Morgan