As everyone says, Bath is very beautiful. Not only is it beautiful, but it is yet another tribute to just how OLD this part of the world
is.

I assumed that the "Baths" in Bath were developed by British Kings, but apparently I had forgotten that part of my English History.

The first thing I read when I entered the Baths was this quote:

"In Britan are hot springs adorned with sumptuous spleandor for use of mortals. Minerva is a patron goddess of these."
Solinus - 3rd century AD.

Wow.

Apparently, in the 1st century when Romans ruled Europe, the hot springs were seen as supernatural, and the baths were built as a
shrine to the goddess Minerva. Although much of the Pagan shrines were destroyed when the British came (12th century AD) these same hot
springs became a sacred and healing place for Kings, and a whole new civilization got meaning from the water, believing it had regenerating powers.

Now that we understand the science behind mineral springs, the baths are a tourist site, devoid of religious meaning or significance. It
made me feel sort of solomn and sad, and I wasn't sure why.

I left the tourism site and climbed into the hills of Bath, enjoying the residental areas just as much as the town square - the
architecture and country-side was even more beautiful without crowds of slow Europeans walking all over it.