Like the Ibis, we couldn’t get the hotel breakfast, so we got breakfast boxes with juice, milk, cornflakes, a flapjack and a pain au chocolat.

We went for a walk in the morning, just to look around. We saw the Bath Abbey, which is pictured below.

At about 11:30 we went to see the Roman baths. They were built in the first century and were used up until the 5th century. They were used as public swimming baths, but now the water doesn’t look very swim-worthy!

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There were statues of Roman emperors around the balcony. This is Julius Caesar:

The baths are still heated by hot springs nearby. An inscription on the edge of one of the hot springs says that it was built in 863BC!

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This is part of the water flow. You can even see the steam rising! The water is about 46°C.

These were some of the smaller pools inside the ancient Roman temple:

These are some of the pillars that held up the original temple:

This is what the baths and temple looked like around the first century:

These are ancient Roman curses that people would ‘inflict’ upon their debtors.

I found some sort of ancient Roman rune, carved into a wall. I wonder what it means…