Today, for the first time in over six years, I had a day out in Bath (Jolly's is a rather swish department store on Milsom Street - and what a wonderfully cheerful name it is.) We did all the usual things we have done for years when we go to Bath -
a picnic lunch in the wonderful Victoria Gardens overlooking Pultney Bridge with their beautiful floral displays (I still clearly remember the year in the mid-Seventies when they had The Wombles as their floral centrepiece) , a cup of tea and a Bath Bun in the Pump Rooms (and, by gum, that Bath Bun was tasty with an enormous lump of sugar in the middle of it!)
In the mid-1980s my sister and I shared a flat right in the centre of Bath (above The Canary Cafe in Queen Street, if anyone remembers Bath in those days) and I always felt I'd done pretty much everything Bath had to offer. But the one thing none of us had ever done before was take an open-top bus tour of the city. It was fanstastic - if a little on the pricey side.
The Royal Crescent
The Circus
Check out the number of chimney pots on these houses!
We saw so many beautiful Georgian buildings in the distinctive and mellow Bath stone from the vantage point of the upper deck.
And little vignettes of Bath I'd never noticed before.
The weather was sunny and warm without being too hot and a jolly's time was had. I'm hoping it won't be six more years before I have a day out in Bath again.
I do so love Bath, how wonderful that you once lived there. The last time I went was on a very fined hen weekend, all vintage clothes shopping and high tea rather than a booze filled frenzy. x
Posted by: Vix | 08/24/2011 at 11:25 AM