Weekend Getaway to Bath, England by train
There are places in your travels that you go back to over and over, never tiring of seeing the same sights. Instead they feel like home to you, and have a calming effect on your psyche. Bath is one of those places for my husband and I. Bath is a small, southern Cotswold town that simply grows on you. It seems quaint enough when you arrive by train and stand on the old platform, with the simple sign, "Bath Spa". But when you leave the station on bus-filled Dorchester Street, instead of an initial view that spells CHARM in capital letters, you look out on a busy street and some formidable buildings that spring, like a city wall, from the pavement. You carry on despite this initial somewhat disappointing impression, and cross the road, walking through the Southgate outdoor shopping mall, complete with H & M and other mass merchants lined up, side by side, as if these stores are the welcoming committee. You begin to question whoever tol...