Sunday, October 7, 2012

Still Sunday, 3rd stop

Go back 2 entries to start for today's news.
The last stop was Bath, a very cool city, which started its beginning for what else, the baths.
History goes way back to some Great something or other guy who was very fond of his pigs. Yes, those pigs again. Well it seems that these pigs had leprosy and so the town folk banned him and his pigs onto his own land. Later the Great caught the disease from his pigs and had noticed that when the pigs bathed in the specials hot springs, they were cured. Need I continue the story?
Later in history, the Romans took over the baths and built huge facilities for the public which are still around today for viewing but not for bathing in. We could actually see the water boiling.
The large city is a configuration of many streets and water ways which are lined with beautiful buildings all of which have to be created out of the same colour stone. It is now a world heritage site and can't be altered. It's like looking at a Mary Poppins' movie, all facades the exact same.