Bath, day 2

Hiiiiiiiii.

So after quite a shitty nights sleep, with the pub below open till late, I got up reasonably early, and headed out. It wasn't the nicest day (bloody England) but it was bearable.

I wandered back down to the Abbey Courtyard, and went on a Free Walking Tour of the city. It was great! It's run by the Mayor, well not him/her specifically, but on behalf of. Our group was about 8-10 people big, so perfect for squeezing inside places when the rain hammered down.

The tour guide was great, we snuggled inside the Bath's first, in their little foyer thing, but it was perfect for us. We got a history of the City and the Bath's and then we walked through the super fancy cafe/restaurant thing there - I wanna be able to afford to eat there!

We wandered all around the city, and our tour guide made everything make sense. We went back up to the Assembly Rooms and poked round, we went to some places that look pretty and have been designed well. We got soaked, we dried out, and then the rain came back again. She pointed out all the great tourist attractions and was a great source of information. It was super cool to be able to have all that for free!

Pictures include -

Oldest Chandelier in the world D:

This is one of the theatres. The big glass structure was built
so they could have a fly floor haha.

After the tour wrapped up, I decided to wander the shops of Bath a bit. They were your standard, British High Street shops, but I found a couple of cute little boutique-y places where I got a few things, so that was nice. 

It started to rain then, so I found a little sheltered seat, and did the proper tourist thing and consulted my guide book about what I should do next, and so off to the Holbourne Museum it was - cos it was free!!

It took me a bit of a walk to get there but I totally managed it. 

It was an Art Museum, which I hadn't realised, but it was good to poke around. They had the poitrait of the Duchess of Caimbridge, painted last year, and its the only showing outside of London this year, stoked I got to see that with no one else in the room! They did a really good job of displaying it too, and had a host/volunteer in the room with a book of the artists other works, that was neat. 

I had a good hour and a half poke around the museum, so I suppose it was worth it after all. 

A soap sculpture in the bathroom, super duper cool!

Then, I was pretty exhausted, so I decided I should head down to the train station and off to Bristol, it was only a half hour train ride so that was pretty sweet and easy to manage with all my stuff!

I'll do a Bristol post tomorrow, I gotta finish looking at all my photos first haha.