Bart's Blog

A Very Narrow Journey

Menu
  • Contact Me
  • About Me
  • Travel
  • Lifestyle
  • Walking
Menu

Weekend in Bath

Posted on February 6, 2018January 19, 2021 by Steph

20-21 January 2018

Our Christmas present this year from our daughter and her lovely other half was a weekend in Bath at the Abbey Hotel www.abbeyhotelbath.co.uk.

What a brilliant present!!!  So at 9.30 Saturday morning off we went.  It was absolutely chucking it down with rain but never mind.  Quite a long journey so we stopped for a cheeky little McDonalds on the way.  When we arrived at Bath we parked, booked in at the hotel and had a quick look at our room ,which was lovely.  It is such a great location, literally just round the corner from the Abbey and the Roman Baths.

Abbey Hotel
Weekend in Bath
Bath

A wander through Bath took us to the Royal Crescent which is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent.  It is one of the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the UK (so the internet tells me!).

Bath
Walking up to the Royal Crescent
Weekend in Bath
The Royal Crescent  No 1 is a museum which has been decorated and furnished just as it might have been in Georgian times but unfortunately it doesn’t open till February.  We will just have to come again as we’d really like to go in.

Continuing our walk around Bath, we noticed one or two interesting looking pubs and decided we really ought to sample a beer or two .  The first one was the New Inn where we had a pint, closely  followed by The Thief.  Also stumbled across the  Bartlett Quarter (which Paul loved!).

We decided we would go to the Abbey next (actual Abbey – not a pub lol) but got waylaid by The Griffin where we had pint number 3 – oops – was fab tho – got chatting to some lovely locals and really enjoyed ourselves.

Weekend in Bath
Paul loving Bath
Weekend in Bath
Lovely pub
Weekend in Bath
Bartlett Quarter
Weekend in Bath
Our street
Weekend in Bath
Poser
Weekend in Bath
Posing again
Weekend in Bath
Enjoying a pint
Weekend in Bath
Loving Bath
Weekend in Bath
Lovely walk around Bath

Next we went to Bath Abbey and it is so beautiful.  As always, when we visit a church, w llit 3 candles for three very missed loved ones and had a lovely walk around the Abbey.

Weekend in Bath
Bath Abbey
Weekend in Bath
Me ?
Weekend in Bath
The Abbey at night

Our pint number four was at the Garricks Head and just half pint at the Pig and Fiddle.  By this time we decided it was time to eat.  We went for a fabulous meal at Corkage (recommended by the landlord at one of the pubs we had been in) – it was absolutely gorgeous.  You have small plates of however many different dishes you want – if you go to Bath and want a fabulous meal, we highly recommend it – corkage bath.com.

Red wine is one of our favourite drinks and here they gave us a sample of a couple of the wines that we fancied so that we could decide which one we wanted.  I can’t recommend it highly enough, but make sure you book.  We were very lucky as we just turned up and they were full but we sat at the bar and luckily for us they had a cancellation so we managed to get a table.  Back to the hotel where we had a cheeky little nightcap in the lovely bar.

Sunday morning we were up bright and early(ish) so we went for a walk along the river.

Rainy morning by the river
Rainy morning by the river
Walk along the river
Walk along the river
Morning walk
Morning walk
Paul
Paul

The Roman Baths roman baths.co.uk are amazing and you need to visit if you go to Bath.  It was £16.00 each to get in but well worth it and the audio guide is included in the price.  We were there for about two hours and it was fab, we loved it.

Weekend in Bath
Roman Baths
Weekend in Bath
A must-do when in Bath
Weekend in Bath
Selfie
Weekend in Bath
Weekend in Bath

It was pouring with rain and we were cold so it was time to be on our way home.  Surprisingly (not) I nodded off in the car and woke up to find we were in Bristol.  This was a trip down memory lane for Paul to see where he grew up (long time ago haha!!)

Weekend in Bath
Bristol

Had such a lovely weekend, what an amazing Christmas present.  Thank you so much Chan and Ross, we love you two little chicks!

If you haven’t been to Bath – go – it’s beautiful – you will love it.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Recent Posts

  • A Week in Malta
  • New Vlog – Meeting Friends in Floods
  • Still Cruising Along The Leicester Ring
  • The Leicester Ring – Part 2
  • The Leicester Ring

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,129 other subscribers.

Archives

  • January 2021
  • September 2020
  • July 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
© 2021 Bart's Blog | Powered by Superbs Personal Blog theme