We both had fantastic sleeps last night. Maybe we had decompressed enough or were over our jet lag, who knows, but we didn't get out of bed until 10:30! At about 1:00 pm we were off to Bath for the day which is only minutes down the road. Once near downtown Bath we did our usual getting lost trying to find parking. I think our fame has preceded us cause locals seem to phone ahead to alert their friends we are coming so they can be ready to misdirect us. Teenagers walking down the street, mothers in their gardens, whatever, we always pick 'em. Anyway, we finally found a nice central parking garage and without too much difficulty found Sally Lunn's bake shop and restaurant for a Welsh Rarebit lunch which was not too salty at all. (That comment was for Jennifer. Some kind of inside joke I think). That was followed by two hop on hop off bus tours back to back. One went around the hilly outskirts and showed us scenic overviews of Bath and the other was city focused going to such places as the Circus and the Crescent. Both were guided by these fantastic, humorous narrators who kept us entertained with their dry funny comments about the sights we were passing. For example, there are nine river Avons in Britain, all of them named by the Romans who asked the Celts the names of local rivers as they conquered the country.The Celt word for river was Avon so that's what they said to the Romans who then named each of them River Avon which is in effect, River River. No? They had better ones but we can't remember anymore. We just finished some nice Cornish pasties and wine so we're a bit foggy.
Our trip home to Bitton was all of 10 minutes today. Yesterday it was over an hour. Guess we're finding our way a bit.
We met the man of the house today. He had just driven 800 miles home from the French Alps where he is part owner of a chalet which is rented out to holidayers. Clearly a hotelier in the making. Seemed a very nice chap who we are interested in getting to know better over the next few days. He has offered to let us use one of his SatNavs for out trips to other Cotswolds towns which should help us not get lost. He says it is rather bossy but easy to get used to.
Tomorrow we are trying to meet up with J&J in Bath but haven't heard back from them yet. It's supposed to rain so we'll have to wait and see if we do meet them and what we will do with them.
Hope all is well back home. More tomorrow. Ta ta.
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