Bath Stone and Champagne Tea

Yesterday I brought Beatrice to Bath, where we met my dear friend Rhian who is over from Switzerland for a bit. A grey, rainy day, the highlight might have been when Rhian showed me how to put the raincover on the Bugaboo properly as although I knew I was doing something wrong, who knew that it would be so *profoundly* wrong?  At any rate, I have learned.  

Being me, a quick march around Bath to see the Circus and the Royal Crescent was sufficient on this first visit before I demanded that we settle in for a long afternoon at The Pump Room for a champagne tea (with extra champagne, please) - unlikely as it sounds, we were actually defeated by the number of cakes, scones and sandwiches with which we were presented, although Beatrice helped quite a lot when Rhian introduced her to the pleasures of chocolate cake...

Bath is completely beautiful and I would move there in a heartbeat, I have to admit (what about this?) - blissful architecture, pleasing creamy stone, great shopping and of course wonderful afternoon teas.  I can't think of anything else I need from a city, can you?

 

The journey there from Oxford was both cheap and very straightforward and takes no longer by train than it would by car (which is just as well, given Beatrice's usual reaction to cars), so perhaps I will have to console myself with more frequent visits instead of an actual move there.  Oh but I love dreaming about moving house!  I don't particularly like the physical move itself, but nothing in this world gives me more pleasure than picking a city and then searching out my ideal apartment there - do you ever do that?

What city would you move to on the 1st of January, if you could pick?  And try to pick with just a glimmer of realism - what would you do there if you went?

Comments

[Caroline, No]

Haha! I do that all the time. And posted about it just today. (Well, all week. I'm having an LA themed week.) Los Angeles, please. I love the weather, the modernist homes, the beach... Oh come on, just for a bit?

Bath is lovely, I absolutely love the rooftop spa there, but I got HIDEOUSLY sunburnt after floating there too long one day last year.

And I've never experienced this surfeit of cakes you speak of in the Pump Room! There is never enough, for me!

[Leslie]

I love love love Bath...first visited there 37 years ago...ate at the most amazing pizza place on the bridge and I think it is still there!

[Miss Cavendish]

Oh dear: I am now feeling so nostalgic for Bath! Love the gently curve of those apartments. Thanks for posting these images . . .

[TheCluelessCrafter]

Oh, you make me so nostalgic. England was my first trip out of the US and the subject (actually British art) of my master's thesis. If I could move anywhere, why yes, it would be London.

A flat on Kensington High Street, please!

For know I'll just have to write about Brooklyn and Lobster rolls;-)

[le petit cabinet de curiosites]

Oxford and Bath look gorgeous ..(except the sky) I love to think about moving , and imagine myself in different places: victorian house , modern flat....and in every place a diferent style

[Carol]

My aunt lives in Bath. It is indeed a wonderful place. I would choose to live in Hobart, Tasmania, because wherever you live you see either water or mountains, the climate is kinder than at my present location, the streets are steeper, the history is better preserved. And because it's captured my heart and I miss it every single day.