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More Than a Bath in Bath

May 17, 2007 at 10:35 AM | 0 Comments

When is a bath more than a bath? That's easy. When it's:

the best preserved Roman religious spa from the ancient world.

That's the marketing tag on the Roman Baths in the English town of Bath, and that really does make it sound enticing. Here you can wander through the Roman temple, Sacred Spring and Roman bath house areas and see exhibits of artifacts from the original days of the bath. What's even better is you can listen to an audioguide recorded by the great travel writer Bill Bryson, which surely takes a witty stance on all things naked and bath-related.

If you want a dip yourself, you'll have to go to the nearby Thermae Bath Spa, where the water isn't quite such a murky green color.

[Photo: scot2342]

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