Robot Claw

The (first class) train to Bath was great. Comfortable and speedy with free drinks and snacks, we could barely believe the quality of service for the relatively low price!

Once in bath we checked into our spacious apartment right in the downtown area (near all the attractions) and walked around the street for lunch.

We’re not that close to the sea (especially compared to Brighton) but there’s a lot of seagulls here and they are professional beggars! We hadn’t noticed the ‘please don’t feed the gulls‘ signs until after we’ve fed them a few scraps, but even so we stopped anyway when we watched one dive bomb some guy and steal a piece of pizza right out of his hands!

About a minutes walk from our apartment is this 500 year old Anglican Abbey. For only £6 each, we took a guided tour up the tower (221 steps!) and onto the very top. Here’s one view from up there:

As you can see Bath is a very pretty town. We’ll be visiting some of the more famous attractions tomorrow. The church tower tour was particularly good though, and the icing on the cake was the very pretty your guide who even said ‘too right’ like an Aussie 🙂

The river Avon flows through bath and the Pulteney Bridge, which crosses the river, is not only famous for its construction and the fact it has shops on it but is also older than Australia! (I keep running into things older than Australia here…)

I took that photo from the south side. Look closely and you’ll see two circular windows in the supports. Here’s a shot taken from inside the basement of the mosaic shop, which looks out through the rightmost of the two windows:

It would be a charming place to live!

Lots more Bath tomorrow…

Super tired after another day in Brighton. Amongst other things, we went to the Royal Pavilion.

Photography wasn’t permitted inside so I snuck the above. It’s a 200 year old Palace of incredible opulence. I wrote more about it on your postcard. Maybe 🙂

That’s the pier again. We rode the ghost train today, which was dumb but fun. We also spent more time in the penny arcade and won two key chains in the Star Trek machine 😛

That’s the i360, a brand new tourist attraction that opened today of all days! Lines were astonishing and we only saw the donut-like platform rise and fall once. Perhaps wind stymied it, but then I doubt they would have built it here were it not windproof.

As you can see it was a lovely day. We spent hours in the sun and I’m totally knackered. Tomorrow we’re off to our next destination. I wonder what we’ll see?

That’s the view from the balcony of our Brighton hotel. As you can see it’s a lovely day, albeit very windy. Still, the rain is gone!

The train trip here was short and sweet, and we spent the afternoon exploring the seaside and shopping district. There’s a lot of people here, but there will be many many more in a few days when Gay Pride starts.

The lighting here is worth mentioning. None of the photos in today’s post have any colour correction on them, and everything looked bright and very colorful in the sunlight filtered through the clouds.

That’s a Pac-Man fruit machine (i.e. old-fashioned gambling machine)! This was in one of the many gambling arcades, and actually pays out in 10p coins if you win!

KLS eating a champagne flavored Magnum!

By later in the day the wind had gotten nearly cyclonic and when we returned to the pier to see the rides at night most of them were closed because of the wind.

Maybe we’ll get a chance to ride a few tomorrow 🙂