A Free Walking Tour in the City of Bath, UK

Our Third day in Bath -- We checked out of our hotel at 930am and joined a free walking tour hosted by the city mayor of Bath at 10:30am. The guest house management was kind enough to let us store our luggage until we came back for them before taking our train back to London. This free city tour was free, organized by the Bath Mayor and conducted by volunteer guides.

Anyone who was interested could attend this tour and there was no reservation or registration required. We just showed up at 10 a.m. near the Bath Site. Our group was divided into 3 smaller groups and we followed our guide who took us through a good part of the old city of Bath.

He explained to us some history of the city such as the development of the Queens’ Crescent, and interesting tales of Bath’s colourful characters such as John Wood and Beau Nah etc. Our guide was knowledgable and clearly passionate about his volunteer work helping toursits to know Bath better. We enjoyed the tour a lot!

Unfortunately we had to leave the tour half way in order to catch our coach back to London as we wanted to attend a tasiz service at the Tower Bridge church at 6p.m.

Howwever,, our coach was late arriving back to London. By the time we got to the church, the service was finished. We went around the London Tower and enjoyed the night view of this famous landmark! The night view was beautiful in a different way. There were ferry services and ferry tours still available in the evening. It would have been a wonderful ferry ride or tour had we been there in the summer. Well, there would always be a next time.

We wanted to experience a British pub and enjoye a traditional local dinner therefore we went to the Wetherspoon Restaurant near the waterfront. We were surprised to see the restaurant and the pub area full of people on a week night. In North America, most people stay home during the weeknights, hardly going out to enjoy ourseleves except for some business meetings or special occasions. Majority of the people, the working people, myself included before retirement, live for the TGIF - Thank Goodness It's Friday when we can let our hair down and go out for dinner, movies or meeting friends. I think it's nice the Brits can spread out their social events throughout the evening during the week! RT, Bath, UK D7022025