Sometimes it just makes the most sense for us to hop on the hop on and off tourbus. It takes us right to most of the places we want to see and, on this day in bath it gave us a tour of the hills around town as well.
Bath was first made popular by the Romans, and we will see what they did with it in another post. After the Romans, it declined, but picked up speed in the time of the Georgian Kings. A city was built aboud the baths by one enterprising man John Wood, and his son, John Wood, and a postmaster turned stonequarryman, Ralph Allen. The rich and royal flocked to this town like hippies to California. There was a reginine about the day and night which included early rising, breakfasting, taking the waters, lunching, resting, praying, dancing and sleeping.
These patrons of Bath needed elegant houses, and both the Crescent and the Circus are all about that. The stone is required to this day for buildings in Bath. The outer appearance is as well. Note the columns on these houses in the Circus-lower level has Doric columns, upper has Ionic, and the thrid level has Corinthian.
There is a great abbey in Bath which will, of course, be in aother post. Here is the square just outside the abbey. Musicians and other entertainers are allowed to perform here-reminds me of Mallory Pier in Key West.
KG
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