We arrived in Bath, the last destination on our day trip out
of London, close to dusk so a little after 4pm on December 26th
(yes, the sun sets early in the winter in this part of the world). Our “tour guide” (I use the term lightly)
walked us around the town center a bit—by the Roman Baths and Bath Abbey—but really
left us to explore Bath on our own. It
was dark by then and I hadn’t had the foresight to download a map of Bath to my
phone (CityMaps2Go is an awesome app to see where you are in a downloaded map
even when offline)—and knowing that the bus had just left a couple behind at
our last stop—so we decided not to venture too far off the beaten path lest we
get completely lost. We did find the
River Avon and the Pulteney Bridge, but unfortunately didn’t make it to the Royal
Crescent. I found Bath quainter and more
beautiful than I had expected to, so I’m happy to have a few reasons to return
in the future. We decided to cap off our
day trip with a drink at the local pub and it was actually pleasant enough to enjoy
it outside. Ella and Jack headed back to
an ice cream shop we had passed earlier for their own treat.
The English countryside is pitch black at night, so we didn’t
see much on our drive back to London.
The bus dropped us off at the Marble Arch corner of Hyde Park, just a short
walk down Oxford Street, a turn at Selfridges and back to our hotel one last
time on our trip to London (and one last meal at Wagamama for dinner). The next day we were on an early train to
Edinburgh, Scotland.
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