I expected a Roamn Bath dropped in the centre of a town....I got alot more!

The trip started in teh same way that many of them do...up early...sleep on coach....get to destination...walk around like you have been half drugged for about an hour to get to know the place....rain!!!!!!! BIG sheets of it!!!!!!!! Run to the univeristy.. after two reception desk find our room. We are not in the accommodation on the website???? We are in students dorm-rooms??? This could be very interesting....I thought my uni days were over...obviously not!

Head down to the pond and try to find something to eat out of as our (according to the website) fully stocked kitchen had 1 spoon, 2 cups and not alot more. Starts to rain again this time much harder than before...we are confined to our lodgings as the rain sounds like it could knock out the windows at any time. Hoever, Rhiannon and I still find ourselves watching it from the door...as if we are soaking up the image to take back home with us...I have not seen rain like this in a long time....it looks clean, it smells clean. I am a child again and want to run and grab my gum boots so I can splash in the puddles!

The night doesn't get better until it gets worse: quick version, drunk students come back to their rooms, drunk students don't make toilets, Louise is not going into her room anymore with colourful signage all over her door...Louise and Rhiannon get University security after 40min in rain...Louise and Rhiannon get room upgrade...Louise and Rhiannon now have own luxury rooms ;) for 2 nights.

Second days starts a lot better and brighter than the last. We are able to fit in a skyline tour of the Bath area which offers spectacular views of the town from above and provideds us with lots of information to bore people with :) It gave us a look at the houses purchased by the UK and US rich and famour and just for a split second I had wished I had persued acting and not teaching ;)

Then it's on to the Roman Baths - the main reason why everyone is here. From outside the look....ok nothing huge...we go it and they want 11 pounds to go see them ????? What if we look through the columns we can see them for free...decide to pay :( 2 and a half hours later we leave...OMG the things that can be hidden underground can amaze and excite! To finish the journey off we drank some of the 'world' well maybe Bath famous bath water....which everyone raved about for health benefits but complained about the awful taste...just tasted like spring water from back home to me...sorry to disappoint! Seen no health benefits yet...unless you count being able to eat 250grams of Mars Planets i one sitting without throwing up a health benefit?

You can pay for the privilege of sitting on grass to eat your lunch....or you can go over the other side of the river and hang with the poor people who sit on park benches....we did the later, if we paid to eat lunch like that in every city we visited we would have had to cut about 5 countries off our travel list....come on UK stop charging us to sit on grass...in private parks/gardens..it's fu**ing crazy...all parks should be public, then ask for a donation! Anyway that is the one and only downside to Bath...but as my previous rant explained...it is not just Bath that does this.

A visit to the Jane Austen Centre...saw me lost in the world of Austen again and upon arriving back home to the library to borrow the works of Jane Austen :) Great idea but it could have been set up to include more...not just Bath related displays and facts.

We had a splendid afternoon tea at the oldest shop in Bath, Sally Lunn's Bun Shop where we sat funnily enough in the Jane Austen Room! A few laps of the city to stop at The circus, Royal Cresent and the Assembly rooms completed our trip to Bath.

If I win tattslotto I am buying a house here, even in the cold and the rain Bath is still beautiful and it is without a doubt one of my favourite places so far...and if it gets to cold...I will just jump in the spas they are warm year round :)