The Roman Baths

Bath from Above

Standing at the top of Bath Abbey, you can see the beautiful city of Bath in all directions. What a wonderful place to take photos from a bird's eye view.

Bath, England

Just a few photos to whet your appetite for more. Bath is such a picturesque city with its beautiful limestone architecture and blooms. Really, you just have to point your camera and shoot and you will be rewarded with a captivating photo.

Scones and Clotted Cream

An English cream tea includes a pot of tea, a scone or two, clotted cream and jam, usually strawberry. The scones can vary greatly but the clotted cream, whether Cornish or from Devonshire, is thick and creamy and absolutely delicious on a scone.

Imagine my delight, after lamenting that I had enjoyed my last cream tea of the trip, when I was served a cream tea on the flight home (pictured directly above). Nothing could have been more welcome!

English Tea Rooms

Just a wee sampling of the tea rooms we came across, and all too often succumbed to on our travels. After traipsing about all day, it's comforting to know that around just about any corner, there's a tea room ready to provide you with a place to take the weight off for a bit and a good cuppa to restore your spirit and set you on your merry way for more holiday making!

Cream Teas

Just about everywhere you go in the South of England... in our case Cornwall, Devon and Somerset... you will come across signs like these inviting you to take time out for a lovely English cream tea. I am happy to say that we hardly ever passed up the chance to consume one, and made it our mission to compare the subtle differences of scones we sampled while considering the relative merits of Cornish versus Devonshire clotted cream. I am not absolutely certain we were able to reach a definitive answer. I think a few more cream teas will be in order!

Borough Market

Another market that we visited on our trip was the Borough Market, just south of London Bridge. I have read that there has been a market in this spot since the first century. Ponder that for a moment! The whole market is devoted to food, which makes it a food lover's paradise. We wandered and explored the many food stalls and bought and ate as we strolled about.

These photos don't begin to convey the wide variety of foods on offer. I would guess that whatever you have an urge for, you will be able to find it among these market stalls! Lots of samples to lure you over, including the amazing number of varities of powdered Turkish delight at one stall. We bought a small bag full of our favourites, so soft and fresh, with real flavours, no artificial flavourings. So good! But that wasn't all we sampled, there were the gigantic meringues (larger than your fist), German sausages on a bun, baguettes, beautifully designed cookies (like the elephant cinnamon cookies pictured here) and wonderful pastries.