"Looking for Romans, finding Phillip" a Bath Travel Page by iandsmith

Spent a week in London with a side trip to Bath on THE DAY in September.
There were people talking about it on the return platform, rumours were flying, something was happening but when we boarded the train an American couple were talking on their mobile to their children in New York. While we travelled back from Bath to London we thus got updates with tantalizing snippets of information. Then I reached the sanctity of my motel and the awful reality sank in. I'll always remember the next day being so apprehensive about leaving the safety of my room. It took me a couple of hours to summon the courage to face the world and yet I was, in more ways than one, so removed from the incident. It was a seminal moment in my life.
On the subject of Bath however, the Abbey was actually built over the site of the Roman temple to Minerva. The inside exudes a brightness due to the walls. Over 50% of them is glass!
Standing across from the Parade Gardens and next to the Roman Baths, the Abbey is the centre point of Bath.
About the time IT actually happened I was taking a picture showing an African musician in front of Bath Abbey symbolising about how good it was that cultures can intermingle harmoniously! Shows how different minds view the world differently.
I have since revisited and, as you will see from my new pages, had a totally different experience of Bath something to do with rugby.

The "Roman" baths had lured me to Bath (amongst other things) and I hadn't done a lot of research otherwise I would have known that what is flaunted as THE ROMAN BATHS is actually only a couple of centuries old. Yes, there are remnants of the Roman Baths here but, after having been to Turkey and Italy, they really don't rate very highly.
They are often under glass or in the side areas of the baths you see here. Personally, I felt this bordered on false advertising.
What I fell in love with was the town and its more recent history. The fact that Governor Arthur Phillip, Australia's first governor, returned to England, specifically Bath, and actually died in a house pointed out by my guide was something I found fascinating, along with all the other historical gems that abound in this city of sandstone.