A Week in Bath - Day 4

Hey everyone! I'm back to putting photos in my posts after the last words only post! (How dare I!?). These are all images from in and around Bath, both during the day and the evening, we wanted to capture the best parts of the city in different lights. I think I've managed to separate the day - and evening photos, you'll be able to tell which is which anyway due to the lighting differences.

The royal crescent is so impressive! Its definitely one of the best things to go and see in Bath, I would definitely recommend it. There is also a museum in No. 1 Royal Crescent that you can go to and learn a bit more about the history of it, however Owen and I didn't bother with it because it was like a national trust property (with plastic food and everything! are we supposed to believe they used to eat plastic food!). So we gave that a miss and just learnt about the Royal crescent via listening in to guided tours and what not! One of the most interesting bits of information we found out was that some of the Royal crescent is actually used for social housing! So there are people who pay millions to live there, next to those who pay hardly anything! It is because of building laws that this occurred; as they had to build so many of the properties for social housing. Another interesting bit of information acquired from the architecture museum (which will come up in a later post) was that all of the big town houses such as the ones at the Royal crescent had to be built a certain way. They were required to be uniformed and expensive in appearance. This however was only at the front! The back could look any which way the owner wanted, it was also usually made from much cheaper materials than the front.

I honestly thought the Royal crescent couldn't get any more beautiful, however when we went back out in the evening to take more photographs, it surpassed itself! The light completely changed the photographs, it really was beautiful to see, I just wished I had tried it at all different times of day. Perhaps when I return to this beautiful city I shall be able to do just that.

P.S.  The next post focuses on one of my favourite places we visited while in Bath, so I may post it tomorrow, or I might decide to post it next weekend, as I have found the weekend to be the best time to post for me, and I feel it deserves the best time to post possible! So thanks for being patient!

Charlotte x

A Week in Bath - Day 3

Bath Day 3 - 10/08/15

A very short one today guys! As the weather was supposed to be terrible on the Wednesday, we decided to spend the day doing a spot of shopping. So we made our way to the outlet shopping centre in street.

Unfortunately the shopping wasn't particularly successful. To be fair I didn't have much money to spend during this holiday in the first place, so I didn't want to just blow it on the first thing I saw, this kind of back fired though as I didn't really buy anything until the last day, just in case I found something better! I am glad I didn't buy anything other than chocolate from the Cadbury and Lindt stores! (Who wouldn't!) , as there wasn't really much worth buying. As you may know if you have been to an outlet store before, the products are mainly quite old and possibly outdated, plus the main reason I only bought chocolate was because I wanted to spend the majority of my money on memory keeping Bath related products! (Which I did!).

The last part of the day/evening was spent taking a walk through Bath to the cinema, to watch the new mission impossible film. Which was really good actually. Its always a worry when a film has so many sequels they tend to go downhill after the first couple, however my favourites of the film series are the most recent ones! So I would definitely recommend going to see it if your an action fan (also Tom Cruise is still looking good!).

Charlotte x

A Week in Bath - Day 2

Bath Day 2 - 09/08/15

Well, here it is, my first proper post on my summer holiday in Bath. If you scroll down you shall probably notice there are a lot of photographs (I actually whittled them down from a lot more!). I got extremely carried away with photographing the amazing architecture and scenery, which was mesmerising. Anyway, like I said I shall try and keep the writing to a minimum and the photographs do the talking, however, there is just so much to talk about It's going to be a challenge!

The first half of the day was spent exploring the famous Roman Baths! I've always wanted to go to the Roman Baths and take in a little bit of English history and it definitely lived up to expectations... as you can probably tell from the amount of photographs! Its an amazing piece of architecture and uses of natural resources, for example the naturally occurring hot springs and rich healing waters. Unfortunately one of the parts of the Baths I found most impressive, I didn't get any photos of because it was too dark; the underfloor heating. A lot of house and places don't even have underfloor heating now so its surprising to see such an effective method of underfloor heating being used so long ago. So if you do get a chance to go and visit this wonderful piece of Bath history, don't forget to have a look at the underfloor heating situated the changing rooms and the hot and warm rooms. The museum experience itself was a good one, it does get rather busy though, so if your not a fan of crowds then try and go at a less busy time! (if there is one!). Also because of the minerals etc. in the water it is a bit stinky of sulphur, but that should not deter you!

These were taken straight after the Roman Baths, the Guildhall is a wonderful building, very photogenic and the little details are delightful! Which to be fair is the case with most of the buildings in Bath.

Even with a big tour bus in front the Bath Abbey is beautiful and impressive to look at. Throughout the rest of the week I got many more photographs of it, in different lights and view points, so there shall be more photographs of this brilliant structure in the next few blog posts! You can also check out my Instagram account for regular photographs from my Bath holiday.

This was a beautiful park in bath situated right next to the weir, I really wanted to go down into the park and get some amazing photographs of the statues, flowers and greenery within the park, however it cost to get in! So on principle I refused to pay for what should really be a public space and only took limited photographs from above. The one directly above is one of my favourites because of the bright colours of the park contrasting with the equally beautiful architecture as a back drop.

One of the very rare photographs Ow allowed me to take!

The weir and Pulteney bridge were amazing, the bridge is home to many little shops, as well as being a beautiful back drop to the impressive weir. Naturally we had to have photographs in front of it!

All of the town houses are so uniform! As well as a lot of them having some sort of defining crescent shape.  

This derelict church was found in the middle of nowhere, the grounds and what is left of the still beautiful church is up kept by a group of volunteers who meet every Saturday.

The day finished with Owen and I taking a walk along the canal which took us around Bath and back towards our holiday property.

These two end photographs were me trying to be artsy! They came out alright though I thought!

As you can probably tell from the rest of the photographs Owen and I spent the rest of the day exploring and photographing Bath. Its such an amazing city, there are so many wonderful things to see and do, including architecture, museums, natural scenery, restaurants, shopping, and of course tea rooms and cafes!  I already can't wait to share the rest of the holiday with you!

Charlotte x