June 28, 2016 - Roman Baths in Bath, United Kingdom

One of the things that we like to do while in Europe is visit cemeteries.  Why?  You may ask.  Usually they are very well taken care of by the families of those that are buried there.  That was not the case here.  Also they usually have some very cool headstones.

It does amaze me how many family members they put in on plot.  I am not sure if they are cremated or what.  I do know that in a lot of cemeteries that if the family doesn't pay to keep the plot that they will dig the bodies up and move them somewhere else.

They had a lot of headstones that were knocked over.

We made our way to the Royal Crescent.

The we made our way to the Jane Austen Centre (this is not a misspelling).

As we were walking around I noticed that the Abbey doors were open so we went over to sneak a peek.

We wondered why the doors were open.

It was for the University of Bath graduation ceremonies.  This actually went on for a few days.

After lunch we did a tour of the Roman Baths.

In the time that the baths were actually in use the water would have been clear because the water would not have seen the sunlight but because there is no longer a roof over the bath it is now green because of algae.

There was a museum inside that had different artifacts that they had found when excavating the area.

They did not know all of this was under the ground.  The way that they found it was that a lady complained to the city that there was water in her basement.  The cause was that the water from the hot springs was coming up through the ground and into her basement.

There were a couple of people that were in period costume acting as if they were there in Roman occupation time.  This guy tried to sell Roger a fan for 3 Danarius so that Roger could fan me as I got out of the warm bath.

The water is bathwater warm as it comes into the main pool.

You could get in line and have a taste of the mineral water.  I said no thank you.  I would however loved to have had tea in the Pump Room.

Kids everywhere and of all ages love bubbles.  Roger says that when he retires this is what he is going to do.