By Alice | Published:
July 8, 2012
On Saturday I went to Bath to meet my sister for a quick sushi and chatting catch-up session. The weather was awful but we had a really nice time looking in shops and stopping for cups of tea.
Society Cafe – good drinks, and interesting booths/projections/magazines
Yen Sushi – very nice seaweed salad, prawn hand roll, and salmon sashimi
Jika Jika – good tea, coffee, and carrot cake
Black and White, 21, Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LN – second hand/vintage clothing and furniture
Country Threads – loads of quilting fabric
Wool – wool!
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By Alice | Published:
August 1, 2011
For my sister’s last birthday (which we celebrated back in March) I said as her gift I’d take her out for a meal somewhere fancy for a good ol’ sisters knees-up, so a few weeks back we cashed-in this promise and went to the Bath Priory. Is there anything more decadent than a really long lunch in good company? It was lovely, the food was really great and the surroundings perfect, really beautiful gardens. It would be a brilliant place to celebrate something like a wedding anniversary. To get there you can get the train into Bath, walk up the hill to the hotel (about half an hour) and then after your 3 hour+ meal toddle down the hill through Victoria Park passing beneath the Royal Crescent. It’s not cheap, especially if you have cocktails and a glass of wine as we did, but for the standard of food and the occasion of it all beginning at £32 for a three course lunch is really not bad and you get these little extras throughout the meal. Recommended.
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By Alice | Published:
February 23, 2010
My sister gave me a voucher for a mystery trip at the end of last year as a gift for my birthday which I was pretty excited about cashing in this weekend as she does great mystery trips and it is always fun to go on adventures with my sister.
Overnight I stayed at my sister’s new place in Bristol that she shares with a friend, it’s another great place (you can see some of her previous flats here and here). We didn’t actually have the damson jam as we couldn’t open the jar (haha, feeble!) so we had honey instead. Then we headed out on the train to Bath which is only a short ride away.
These are the Roman Baths, it was especially interesting to see these having just been to Rome. My favourite fact was that the street level next to the baths is now 4 meters higher than it was in Roman times.
We had morning tea in the Pump Room, very civilised.
Bath seems a very good place for cute little shops and cafes. While Bristol seems to have more of an alternative edge, Bath has so many pretty streets. We ate at the River Cottage Canteen, really good kippers and chocolate brownies.
The Royal Cresent.
Thank you for the fun adventure Rose! :)
