| A square in Bath, England. There were a lot of old Bathians...er, Bathites...hmm, maybe it's Bathish...no wait, it must be Bathers. Whatever the case, there were old people and birds. I guess that makes this a photo of an old bird Bath. (God, I'm so ashamed.) |  |
| Cheap Street. My kind of street. |  |
| This is the Lansdown Grove Hotel in
Bath. It is a supposedly the oldest in Bath. The building dates back to the 18th
century. It is a fairly upscale hotel. The corridors wind up and down and all
around like a fun house. In fact, they don't say what the building was before it became a
hotel in 1888, but I think it was a sanatorium. The place was downright spooky at
night. FYI, the dark green car in the foreground with the passenger side door open was our second of the trip, a Toyota. My father managed to screw up the transmission on the Vauxhall. Must have been all that hard shifting. |
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| This is on of the narrow corridors in the hotel. Maybe it was the weird layout of the building or the fact that there weren't very many guests that I saw. The place was delightfully eerie. If I believed in that kind of nonsense, this place was probably haunted. |  |
| A bust with a bust. Even this was creepy in a dark hallway. |  |
| The view from the balcony of our room. I can just imagine some 18th century insane upper-class twit looking at this view from his room. He'd probably be standing there in his underwear and a sailor's hat. (No wait, that was me.) |  |
| Sally Lunn's house. This is allegedly the oldest house in Bath, dating back to 1482. Sally moved in in the 1680's. Sally Lunn was famous for her buns. (Insert your own joke here.) This tiny house was just packed with tourists eating those big old buns. Sally used to bake them in her basement. She doesn't do that anymore. She's dead. |  |
| In the center of this shot is a street performer playing a soprano saxophone. Bath had a few street performers. In fact, there was one guy who's whole shtick was to paint himself silver, wear a suit painted in the same silver paint, stand perfectly still and have people think he was a statue. Ah, performance art! |  |