A Bed In Bath And Beyond
- niltiac333
- Jun 16, 2023
- 3 min read
Allo!
On to some good news as I've reached beyond the limit of my cunt quota!
I caught the train to Bath after Brighton and I loved Bath! From the moment I stepped off the train I was hooked. There's just something about the place.
I adored the guesthouse I stayed in. A cute Victorian building with the loveliest bloke running it. First time I've actually been able to rest and relax and recharge properly. So much so that I'll be spending the next week hiking across the Welsh countryside. But I'll post about that later.
In Bath I did the free walking tour, and it actualy was a free walking tour. It was run by the council and they don't accept tips. Did you know Jane Austin lived in Bath for a while and she hated it! That little fact tickled me a little bit.
It was great tour and Bath is a beautiful city, almost more so than Porto. Actually I know how to describe it, Porto is the beautiful wild woman with crazy dyed hair and tattoos everywhere, Bath is a beautiful English rose with porcelain skin and honey coloured locks.
I also did the ghost tour and that was lots of fun. Bath may just be haunted. We visited a lot of spots but the last two kinda shook me. We visited a place where they used to have duels and the tree where the attending doctor used to have his tent was haunted. We did an experiment where someone volunteered to touch the tree and the rest of us took photos to see if we could see the ghost...
Take a look at this pic I took!
And the last spot we visited was an empty Georgian townhouse where a poor woman hanged herself. Three volunteers got to peek through the letter box to see if they could see anything. I went first...
And I looked through the letterbox into the empty doorway and up the stairs and up the back and-
holy fucking shit I nearly shat me daks!
Up the back behind the staircase I swear I saw a figure. It was dark but there was definitely a headshape. But the other two volunteers didn't see anything.
Now believe in this stuff or not but I have always seen things, especially in Roebourne. And I have always felt things. So I believe in all this stuff.
Anyways. I also visited the Roman baths and the Romans really never cease to impress me. Their roads and buildings are still standing 2000 years later. That is mind blowing! TWO THOUSAND YEARS! The Roman baths in Bath was like a modern day leisure place with cold pools, hot pools, massages and a gym!
And lastly I visited Stonehenge! That was pretty awesome! I learned that Stonehenge is older than the pyramids by about 2000 years, and they were around long before druids were so druids actually had nothing to do with building Stonehenge.
On that same tour we also went to Avesbury, which has stone circles around the same age as Stonehenge, then we visted Lacock which is featured in Harry Potter, Pride and Prejudice, and Downton Abbey. It was here I had a beer in a 700 year old pub. That was pretty cool.
It was also in Lacock that I learned about poor houses. Back in the day poor houses (like the one in Oliver Twist) also were a tannery where people would sell their wee for tanning purposes.
That is where "piss poor" and "doesn't have a pot to piss in" come from.
If you were poor you worked with piss - piss poor.
Rich people had chamber pots, poor people didn't - no pot to piss in.
So yeah. You ever get a chance go to Bath!
‘Porto is the beautiful wild woman with crazy dyed hair and tattoos everywhere, Bath is a beautiful English rose with porcelain skin and honey coloured locks.’
Gorgeous prose.