Another comment on buskers in Bath. I’ve already said that I don’t like amplifiers but I feel the same about ‘living statues’. What’s that all about, is it entertainment? Here’s an example is it entertainment or is it someone sitting down doing nothing? 20 April 2014
In Bath, in April 2014, they’re back. Bloody Romans! 19 April 2014
Oh my goodness, it looks as if Sir Richard Branson is about to drop in for tea. Put the kettle on Mrs Sixwheeler! 16 April 2016
Through the beautiful city of Bath the River Avon wistfully wending its weary way westward . . . . . Oops, dangerous outbreak of Purple Prose reported by Bath blogger. 14 April 2014
One of our favourite walks is from the village straight up the hill to Beckford’s Tower. This is a familiar landmark at Lansdown on the northern side of Bath. Anyone who has used the Lansdown Park and Ride will know it. Built in 1827 by William Beckford it stands 120 feet high above the redundant…
This is the centrepiece from the Roman portico that stood above the entrance to the hot baths during the time of the Roman Occupation. The queues outside the Bath Spa have nothing as good as this to look at whilst they are waiting to get in. I think it’s utterly beautiful. 12 April 2014
One benefit of living in Bath is that you can obtain a Bath ‘Discovery Card’ from the council which gives you access to some local attractions either free or at reduced charge. Today we caught up with something we’ve been meaning to do for ages, we visited the Roman Baths which were one of the…
Bath is celebrated for the wonderful Georgian buildings throughout the city. One of the most beautiful is Pulteney Bridge that spans the River Avon. Like most of these buildings there is a public (or beautiful) side and a private (or plain) side. Actually some of these backsides are really quite tatty. Here is the private…
This is NOT the Bath moon rocket, it is the memorial put up by “The Inhabitants and Visitors of Bath to the PRINCESS VICTORIA on the attainment of her majority. 24 May 1837.” It stands in the entrance to Royal Victoria Park. Obviously. 26 March 2014
It is The Independent Bath Literary Festival time, mind you there’s always some festival or other going on in Bath. Last night I went to see the legendary Count Arthur Strong which is always a treat and tonight Mrs Sixwheeler and I are going to see the cookery writer Claudia Roden who has long been…
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