Happy Easter!

We just had a 4-day weekend break from Good Friday to Easter Monday. It's the longest series of bank holidays in the UK so we decided not to let it pass especially since the BBC forecasted good weather. Well, if the BBC said so...

The holiday place of choice is the city of Bath in Somerset. I've been there once and was quite excited to go back to get to know the city better. We had great fun looking at old buildings, searching for restaurants tucked in corners, walking the city streets and mainly sleeping in the park hehehe.

We did have some great eats:

Sally Lunn Buns - operating in the reported oldest house in Bath, this place is basically famous for its bread. I did not actually get what's so special about its taste, but I did find the story of Sally Lunn's name quite amusing. Apparently, she was a French woman who migrated to Bath. Back in France, her trade was to sell light and dark bread which she called "Sun and Moon". Naturally, when she tried to carry on selling in Bath, she marketed the breads the same way, by shouting "Soleil et Lune" (soo-ley e loon). So people thought her name was Sally Lunn! Nutter.. Hahaha!

The Old Green Tree pub - real nice pub. smallish, cozy. Jack tried the milk stout -- dark beer to, like Guiness

The Wife of Bath resto - named after a character in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, it is a brilliant hole in the wall type of resto. The kind that will make you extremely proud of yourself if you discovered it all on your own. Kaso kami ni-research namin hehe. Super sarap ng lamb shank dito!

The Walrus and the Carpenter cafe - reminded me so much of a university cafe with all the posters and friendly staff who look like students. Go for the beefburgers and you'll never go wrong. Just now, I've realized that our waitress was one of the owners. Real nice girl, told us that the place is named after the Lewis Carroll poem.

The highlight of our holiday was a 2-hr stint at the new-ish Thermae Bath Spa. It's supposed to be the modern Roman Bath, which was a tall order, in my opinion. It did good, though. Despite getting the basic package for 20 quid, we were treated to 4 steam rooms, a heated pool in the basement and a gorgeous rooftop pool overlooking the city centre at the, well, rooftop. If you find yourself in Bath, you'll be kicking yourself if you didn't go. Bliss...

Sabi ko nga kay Pargad, pag yumaman ako, mukhang magandang magtayo nito sa Laguna ;)

For Easter service, we attended the one in Bath Abbey (para libre kami sa entrance hahaha! That was a joke, I think.)