Bath Skyline

After a week of dark wet days, Saturday was clear and fine.
In the absence of anything better to do, Moonface and I repeated a short winter walk that didn't require the use of a car. We took the local train to Bristol TM, then onwards to Bath. The trains were packed tight with shoppers and weekenders, but arrived on time and took us more easily & faster than a car right into the centre of Bath.

Then we walked around the station, under the tracks, over the river, along the canal towpath, then up the hill to the clear ground overlooking the city. In ten minutes we could overlook the whole of the old city, coloured cream and honey in the bright light. We walked over frosted grass and muddy fields, through a valley that debouched onto the city yet had no roads running through it.

Then, through woods, past houses, by the university fields, over a golf course and eventually back down to the city again after about six miles. We had met few people apart from joggers and dog-walkers, until we returned to the city.

We threaded our way back into the city centre through the hordes of shoppers, briefly looked into the Victoria Art Gallery and ate hot Cornish pasties in the gardens overlooking the weir before catching our trains home. Overall it was a simple, pleasurable quiet day out, all the better for being snatched from a wet winter.


(tbc)