So first day of the entire year when it hasn’t poured down with rain. And the first main trip out was to wonderful Bath. It was a lovely, if slightly chilly day, and we set off in Bec’s car to the train station. Even with four of us, the cost was only £26 with a “group saver”, meaning that we actually paid for four adults which worked out cheaper than 3 and 1 child on a railcard. Anyway with station parking it was less that thiry quid – wouldn’t have been that price in the car…
So we pulled into Bath station after a leisurely 40 minute chuff, and immediately I realised yet again that I didn’t quite have enough clothes on – not meaning I had forgotten my trousers, just that is was chilly enough to allow for another jumper perhaps. Every part of Bath is now great, it must be one of my favorite cities, it has new shops, old architecture, buskers a plenty, pubs, restaurants, tiny alleys, big parks and its all pretty compact. Today saw bright sky’s and a manageable number of shoppers, we had a little mooch around then into a pub. This place had the beginnings of a stag do (which seemed a lot more sophisticated than some I have seen) and a weird, short Chinese student who severely lacked any type of social skill demanding to know why BT Sport was not playing on the TV’s – I am pretty sure he didn’t even have a drink.
After a quick read of the paper, we investigated a street we normally don’t go down and found some lights which were on a magnificent sale, so we bought two – then more mooching until lunch. We thought we would try FireHouse, which looked good, it mentioned pizza and chicken, but we didn’t look at the menu until we arrived. We walked in and the first thing the bloke said was “Do you have a reservation” – I would have liked to have left then. But we followed him upstairs and to our seats. One quick glance at the menu and it was clear this was not pizza express, so we just got back up, put our coats on and left. I legged it quickly to leave Bec’s and Kate to do any explaining – luckily the guy was to busy with his reservationists to notice.
So a little wonder later and we found ourselves outside the Slug and Lettuce, which are sometimes a little ‘WeatherSpoonish’ but this was nice, and as we had arrived early we had a great seat – Perroni and a super duper burger – it was really quite good.
The one problem with being on the train is that you have to plan ahead for leaving, so we walked around and had a look in the variety of shops and places until nearly time to leave, we then had to walk all the way to the lamp shop and carry the lamps 30 miles back to the train station – me being super efficient ensured that we actually got back to the train station half an hour earlier than we needed to – so we sat in the cold, with our lamps.
Great day in Bath – love it. 8/10