Bath - One of the Most Beautiful Cities in Europe

This weekend was close to perfect for me and I can't remember when was the last time I had such a relaxed time! So, thought the perfect way to end this lovely weekend would be to write about another perfect Sunday :) This is on the beautiful city Bath - my last tourist destination in UK. 

I was super excited about the trip for every possible reason, not only because Bath is the most enchanting small city with fascinating history, but also to have a lovely company. Even though I enjoy traveling alone just as much, and the Manchester trip the week before was pretty fun, Bath trip reminded me that if you've the right trip partner, then that just doubles the fun! :)

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A little spoiler alert before we start our journey- most of my photos from this trip are a little tilted, not sure whether that's the result of over excitement :p However, I must say that the city itself is way more beautiful than my photos can depict!

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The reason I chose Bath to be my last destination was because it's very conveniently located, around 2 hours from Oxford, which is perfect for a day trip. Since that was my last weekend and had a lot of pressure to wrap up my project, prepare for presentation, and stuff like that, I didn't want to spend too long just riding in the train. Also, decided to randomly walk around the city and explore whatever seemed interesting. Besides browsing shops and restaurant, we ended up stopping by the Holburne Museum and the Roman Baths. I'll talk more about them later.

River Avon

As we walked into the city, we found the river front of River Avon, which is very beautiful and soothing. There were people enjoying river cruises but just standing there, enjoying the sound of water was as pleasant! Then the little theatre, coffee shops and restaurants were very pretty, too! I loved how the historic essence of the city was so well preserved, as if every little corner is telling you a story. Oh, and I found a perfect circle in the sky, too, and you can even find clouds shaped like two eyes, a nose and a lip inside that circle if you look closely! (I mean I did :p)

The Little Theatre

Cute terrace restaurant

That coffee shop had really interesting decors! There's a gigantic coffee cup on the table inside, too!

That circle in the sky!

Pretty city!

While walking here and there we randomly came across Holburne Museum. They had some quite interesting large-scale sculptures on display outside, so we decided to explore what's in there! It's mainly fine and decorative arts museum built around the collection of Sir William Holburne. I really liked their "Small is Beautiful" collection. And actually next year the museum will be celebrating it's 100th anniversary! So, it might be worth exploring if you're visiting Bath sometime next year.

According to the museum, Bath is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe 

The art gallery and the curious visitor :)

By the time we were done with the museum I was pretty hungry. So, we headed out to find somewhere nice to eat. At first we thought we'd go to that pretty terrace restaurant (I posted picture above), but then we ended up going to the restaurant close to station, which was pretty nice and fancy too! The food was good, except that I was a little surprised by the size of potato :p Cause when I read potato in the menu I was definitely expecting something more noticeable (given that it's UK)! But it was good and pretty filling for me :)

See if you can locate the potato! :p

After lunch we stopped by the cute little fudge shop. They give free samples if you walk in and also demo the making process. We decided to see the Roman Baths first and snack on them later as we both were pretty full after lunch.

Fudge store and me being the photo bomb :-/

The Roman Bath was stunning and worth visiting. It always feels so great to experience ancient history and not to mention, was fascinated by the architecture! The audio tour was great, too. Here are some pictures- 

Liked that quote!

Bath Abbey

Like every good thing, our fun time together also came to an end with the Roman Baths visit, and we headed back to our destinations. Luckily there was some more thrill left to my journey! I met a very interesting woman in train by chance, who was also traveling to Oxford. We had a wonderful time chatting. So, I gathered a lot of beautiful memories in one day that I can cherish till my next visit (well, let's hope that'll happen) :)