{"id":154,"date":"2007-10-04T23:13:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=154"},"modified":"2007-10-04T23:13:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T13:13:33","slug":"exploring-bath-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/britain-ireland\/exploring-bath-england","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Bath &#8211; England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>DAY 13 &#8211; Bath has more to offer than just the Roman Baths.\u00a0 The best way to explore this unique Georgian city is on foot.\u00a0 The city centre is free of traffic and is full of museums, cafes and shops.\u00a0 We started at the Pulteney Bridge which was built in the <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/7923-2\/GB_0648.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Pulteney Bridge\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Pulteney Bridge\" \/>1700s.\u00a0 Designed by Robert Adams, it is lined with shops, which tragically for us, they were not opened during our time there.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/7941-2\/GB_0659.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"The Crescent\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"The Crescent\" \/>Bath owes its elegant building designs to the brilliance of two architects, John Woods, elder and younger.\u00a0 We found our way to the Royal Crescent which is hailed as the most majestic street in Britain.\u00a0\u00a0This great arc of 30 houses was the masterpiece\u00a0of the younger John Woods.\u00a0 The houses here must cost a mint.\u00a0 House no. 17 was once the home of Thomas Gainsborough, a famous 18th century painter.\u00a0 There is beautiful garden in front of the arc for the private use of the residents only.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/7973-2\/GB_0678.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Bath Abbey\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"Bath Abbey\" \/>Bath Abbey is at the centre of the old city.\u00a0 This beautiful abbey was believed to have been designed through divine intervention.\u00a0 Legend has it that God dictated the design of the church to Bishop Oliver King in a dream.\u00a0 The Bishop then went about re-designing a church that had been built in the 8th century&#8230;&#8230;mme.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAY 13 &#8211; Bath has more to offer than just the Roman Baths.\u00a0 The best way to explore this unique Georgian city is on foot.\u00a0 The city centre is free of traffic and is full of museums, cafes and shops.\u00a0 We started at the Pulteney Bridge which was built in the 1700s.\u00a0 Designed by Robert [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bath-england","category-britain-ireland","category-england"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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