Steve & Ella's Excellent Adventure

Bath - Day 2! The 19 th August and Day 2 of our BATH visit, greeted us with slightly better weather. It was still miserable looking outside but at least it was dry and we could try and have a good look around Bath while the heaven's were keeping the rain at bay. First order of the day, apart from breakfast (and we all know why!) we visited the Roman Baths which were conveniently located practically around the corner from our hotel. The Roman Baths, where the upper portions date back to the 18 th Century. The original Great Bath built when the Roman's occupied Britain between 43-410 AD. The Great Bath was originally roofed, with a pitched timber construction which was later replaced with a much heavier ceramic type roofing. This type of roofing required extra support and you can see the double pillars around the great bath to help support it. Eventually after the Roman's left Britain the whole complex fell into disrepair and lost to re-silting in the 5 th Century. The ...

Destination : BATH! After a long week at work Steve and I got on a train on Friday night (the 17th August) and headed to BATH for the weekend. Friday afternoon, we were blessed with acceptable weather and it was still dry when we arrived in BATH in the evening...and after a relaxing drink at ALL BAR ONE, we retired for the night after a big week at work ready to explore Bath in the morning. Unfortunately for us, Saturday (the 18th August) brought with it BAD WEATHER! After a little bit of a sleep in to leave behind the long working week, Steve and I ventured out for the first order and most important task for the day - BREAKFAST! For those of you who know me, there is a direct correlation with my mood and the amount of food left in my belly, I dare say that Steve would not have risked me being cranky for most of the morning so we promptly sat down for a good english breakfast of Bacon & Eggs. As we ate, we looked out the window which was presenting us with worsening weather and tr...

London - Summer Sunshine & Trafalgar Square! On Saturday (the 4th August), London finally gave us a glimmer of hope of some sunshine and the great summer warmth we were all waiting for (and wondering whether we had been delusional in thinking we would have a good summer here!) I mentioned in our previous blog that I had scored a job in a salad bar in Paddington. Since then I have been moved to their other store in Covent Garden (St Martin's Lane) but seriously close to Trafalgar Square - which was the inspiration for our outing today in the dazzling summer sunshine. Yay for London! We set out and found our way to my place of work (which is surround by great places to eat and a number of theatres) perhaps for a salad at 40% staff discount. I changed my mind pretty quickly after spotting a "Sushi & Bento" and promptly dragged Steve in there to stuff my belly full of delicious salmon sushi..YUM! For those of you who remember, I ate sushi everyday until it came out of...