The next morning with our couchsurfing host before we hopped on our bus. Next stop, Bath.
I didn't have to wait too long to get fish and chips. Once we got to Bath, we stopped at a restaurant next to the abbey and dug right in.
The Bath abbey.
The facade of the abbey.
After checking into our hostel, we headed to the ancient Roman Bath. The Romans created this bath house after discovering the natural hotspring mineral waters that flowed up from the ground. They attributed the hot waters and healing powers to their god, Minerva.
The sacred spring. There were actually several baths, here. The Romans created several baths with varying temperatures. The privileged ones of the day would come once or twice a day, undress, put on their heavy-duty sandals so as not to burn their feet on the heated floors, hit up the sauna, then the ever-increasing temperatured baths, and then finish off in a refreshingly cold bath. After, their slave would give them an intense exfoliation treatment by a scraping knife over their skin along with a rub down of perfumed oils.
The stone afro
Katie in front of the great bath. It was cold. Too bad we couldn't hop in!
The great Roman bath with the abbey in the background. This was street level in Roman times. Now, modern street level is more than 10 feet higher!
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