Day 1 / Step 1 - dump all our heavy luggage (this was part of the move back to Toronto after all)
Day 1 / Step 2 - meet up with Auntie R and head out of Bath to find a pub with good vegetarian meals and great craft beer. Our landlady had kindly left a big stack of French bande dessinees for the children (and check out the detail on the hairstyle).
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| Step 2b. hop out of the car for a stroll outside the spectacular Wells cathedral |
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| Day 2 / Step 1 - find the fairy houses and create your own dens on the National Trust's trail round Bath (open the map link -it's gorgeous!) |
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| Day 2 / Step 2 - cafe in our courtyard with Auntie R and nephew as the customers and Sophie serving a range of soup & sandwich options |
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| Day 2 / Step 3 - off to the Museum of Work, which had some good exhibits on the soda water "industry" of Bath and stone-cutting for Palladian Bath's architecture |
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| grinding stone (or glass perhaps?) |
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| Ready for Downton Abbey |
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| In fact, ready for the ball |
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| Day 2 / Step 4 - have Auntie R taxi home with the kiddie winks, whilst the parents soak in the sunshine next to some of Britain's best architecture, the Royal Crescent |
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| Day 3 / Step 1 whilst the sisters took the waters at the modern, FABULOUS baths (no photos, thankfully), the kids and their dad headed off along the canal |
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| and through Britain's longest cycle tunnel |
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