Bath: Bath Abbey

the Abbey at night

The weekend of Friday Nov 4th to Sunday Nov 6th, I went with 6 friends to visit Bath, a town a few hours away from Herstmonceux. It's named after the famous Roman Baths in the centre of the town, which take advantage of a natural hotspring. I'll be doing a few posts about our trip, but I wanted to begin with the incredible Bath Abbey.

We got very lucky with our hostel location- we were about a 2-minute walk from the central area of Bath, with the Abbey and the neighbouring Roman Baths as the focal point. There's been some form of worship on the Abbey site since 757 CE, when an Abbey Church was built as part of the Benedictine monastery in Bath. The Abbey has a great website if you want more photos or information; click here to see it.

We walked to the Abbey the first night we were in Bath, and then returned the next day so we could go inside. It was beautiful!

Below are two videos I took inside Bath Abbey. I didn't add the music; there happened to be someone playing the Abbey's organ at the time!

And lastly, here's a video from the square next to the Abbey. No music added here either; it's a street performer playing the fiddle (he can be seen near the end). I recognized the song immediately- it's an old British folk song called "Scarborough Fair" (famous chorus: "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme"), and I later found out it was popularized by Simon and Garfunkel.