Englishness at it's best and surrounded by beautiful countryside. (Bath (Somerset))

Member Name: Trishajs

Product:	Bath (Somerset)
Date:	19/07/09 (27 review reads)
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Advantages: Jamie has now opened a restaurant there

Disadvantages: I don't live there yet

Until I was eleven, I only ever holidayed in this country and I learnt to love several weekends away in a year rather than a long holiday once a year and nothing else the rest of the time- so I have visited many locations in England. I do have long holidays but just not annually.

Bath soon became one of my favourite cities in the country- it is England- as England should be- not one of the towns that all are practically carbon copies of the one you have just driven out of and the one you will next drive into.

I have been going to Bath since I was younger, doing the normal tourist route- Bath Abbey, The Pump Rooms, Royal Crescent, The Circle, The American Museum and the Jane Austen Museum etc; etc; Also enjoying very relaxing river trips and the array of beautiful architecture in Bath stone.

The shopping is wonderful as aside from the normal shops, there are both small and large outlets that you won't in many places, if anywhere else at all.

I have been back and enjoyed the summer concerts at The Rec and several wonderful productions at The Theatre Royal.

I have walked and relaxed in Royal Victoria Park, taken the tour bus around the city and gone back to lap up the atmosphere of the Bath Christmas Market and luxuriated in the wonderful Thermae Bath Spa.

It is a direct line train run from London Paddington in one and a half hours.

Bath is an inspirational city, I can walk for hours, sit for hours and my mind has so many thoughts- it makes me feel so good.

It is a very cultural city and there doesn't seem to be a day that there isn't something going on.

There are so many restaurants that you will be spoilt for choice, and the best tea shop I have ever come across, serving a menu that goes on for pages listing so many unusual teas- most of which I had never heard of.

A couple of years ago I was leaving Bath on the way back to London and as the train moved further and further away - all I could think was " I want to go home"- meaning back to Bath. So, that is my forward plan, I want to move there, because I think I am in love with the City and we shouldn't be apart.

If you haven't been there put it on your list of places to go, take the city bus tour and then just enjoy the city- don't worry about trying to see everything there is to do in one day- you'll be back.

Summary: A very artistic city