Well we had a fantastic weekend in Bath. After a very yummy breakfast on Saturday we headed into town. While Dad and Dave watched the rugby at a pub, Mum and I headed to the Fashion Museum (http://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/) and Reception Rooms. Fantastic clothes on display – mum and I tried on a corset and hoop skirts! Very fun but the lack of breathing could be a problem. The Reception Rooms were also lovely, straight out of a Jane Austin Novel!
We then wandered around the town which is so pretty. The afternoon was spent in the Roman Baths and Bath Abbey – both fantastic places. http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/ Took lots and lots and lots of photos.
Another yummy breakfast on Sunday morning and then we headed back into town. Mum headed to the Jane Austin museum while the rest of us wandered around for a bit.
We stayed in a lovely B&B while we were in Bath and would definately recommend it to anyone planning a visit – http://www.high-beeches.com/
In the afternoon we headed down to Longleat, http://www.longleat.co.uk/. On the way we stopped off at the Westbury Horse – it is one of a number of huge horse carved into a hillside. It was HUGE and on such a steep hill that it was a bit concerning standing above it.
Longleat is the home of Lord Bath who is a eccentric character (to put it mildly). As all Lords should have, he has his own safari park. It was great, you drive around and the animals all wander past you – giraffes, deer, lions, tigers, wolves, sea lions (ok, these don’t walk around the car but you do see them)!! There is also a great monkey enclosure where the monkey jump on your car and basically try to remove anything they can. Our hire car was lucky but a few cars going around lost aerials, trim and windscreen wipers!
We then went through the house which was just beautiful. On our way home we drove past Stonehenge. We didn’t go in as it was pretty late, but conviently the traffic was bad as we drove past so we got a great view anyway.
Mum and Dad headed to Venice yesterday and are enjoying themselves. We are heading to Rome for the weekend to spend some more time with them. Well, that is as long as Air Alitalia do not go bust before we fly out on Friday night so keep your fingers crossed for us!
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- River Avon
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- Weir on the river
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- Pretty Bridge
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- Playing dress ups – just wish I could breath!
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- Mum playing dress ups
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- Bath
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- Roman Baths
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- Ancient drain – not that exciting until you find out it is a couple of 1000 years old and still working
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- Look the sun is shining!
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- Mum and I having a bath….
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- Bath Abbey
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- Pretty roof in the Abbey
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- Spot the rabbit ears (thanks dad)
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- The Crescent
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- Pondering pig
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- Royal Crescent
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- Dave and our hire car
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- White horse in Westbury
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- Longleat house
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- Giraffes
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- Safari park in Longleat – I don’t think it’s that green in Africa!
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- Kissing camels
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- Vultures
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- Rhino – just to the left of this was a truck ready to head off any charging rhinos!
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- the same rhinos
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- Sleepy kittys
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- Like a tiger! It’s a bit blurry as for safety we weren’t allowed to open our windows when driving past the tigers
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- Mum on a stye
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- Stonehenge from the motorway
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