After food we went looking for somewhere a bit livelier and found a place called "The Beau Nash" which was doing £1 beers and jager bombs, which was both dangerous and awesome. We met there a group of local guys who, on realising we were Australian, immediately befriended us and after a few drinks they went to take us somewhere else. On leaving we realised that £1 drinks are amazing and went back in for 1 last drink, promptly lost them and met (when one of them, Amber, fell up the stairs in front of us but this is ok as it was her 21st) a group of girls, Laura, Amber and Venetia. Had a drink with them then headed on with them to the next club, stayed there with them for a while but that place wasn't as good so when the girls headed home we walked back to the hostel, where we ran into some other people staying there and spent another couple of hours in the dungeon with them.
Next day we hung out in the common room for a while then the need for food arose so we walked around Bath, having a look at the Royal Crescent (a huge semi circle of really expensive looking, identical houses looking out over a massive park where we saw a group of women having a tea party), the Abbey (which is hugely ornate and very impressive) and the general architecture (everything is uniform, 3 story height above ground and 2 below, almost all the buildings are identical, gives it a very cool feel) and found lunch at this awesomely tasty, super cheap bakery called "La Baguette". Explored Bath, had dinner at "The Beau Nash" which was, as with its drinks, delightfully cheap and then bought some beers and had a quiet one in the hostel common room.
Lewis had a lot of work to do so the next day he spent in the common room while I wandered around Bath. Got lunch again from "La Baguette" and it was again really awesome, and at around 3 met up with Laura from the monday night escapades and she showed me this place called "The Circus" which is a really cool complete ring of houses, all identical, broken only by a couple of intersecting roads, and in the center is a circular (obviously) grassy area with some enormous trees in the middle. At about 4 headed back to the hostel and Lewis and I re-checked in (we were originally only staying for 2 nights but added an extra) and met a couple of our new roommates, Cameron, an Aussie, and Maggie, a Yank.
A British girl staying there had invited us go watch a cricket game, so Cameron, Maggie and I grabbed a couple of beers and wandered down while Lewis kept working. Cricket is nigh on impossible to explain to an American. The game ended up being really good, won by a 4 on the last ball, and was nice to sit in the sun and watch some lazy sport. At about 8 we went back to the hostel, kidnapped Lewis and went out looking for somewhere to eat and have pre-drinks before we headed to "Discord", an advertised alternative punk/metal Wednesday night (why on a Wednesday I cannot fathom) club. Found a little place called "The Cork" which had really tasty, cheap food (this is a recurring theme so far which I am very happy about) then we pub crawled to Discord. Discord was (is) held at a place called Panana (Pa na na possibly) which is this really cool, underground venue, a whole series of smallish rooms of very old stonework and curved roofs, and also had £3 double vodka mixers and £3 for 2 shots of jager. I originally thought it was for 2 jager mixers (Lewis bought) but it turns out he bought us straight double shots of jager in a glass... this explains my next morning. Cameron and Maggie left and Lewis and I hung around, the music was excellent, old school Blink style with some Pendulum thrown in, and also a more punk/emo room off to a side. We left when the club closed at 2am.
Woke up the next morning at 7:30, and unable to sleep and super dehydrated (damn you Lewis and your straight jagers!) and went down to the common room to doze and drink large quantities of water until 10 when I woke up Lewis because we had to checkout by 10:30. Checked out with 2 minutes to spare and dropped our stuff off in the car then went back into Bath. Grabbed yet another delicious pastry meal, paused briefly to look around the abbey and then went to the Roman baths which were well worth the £14 entry. An awesome, partly restored, partly genuine roman, building filled with sculptures and mosaics and a myriad of other roman pieces. I went in expecting to find a couple of baths and found a whole system of them, different sizes and styles, some enclosed, some open air, all steaming with heat and several bubbling from where the hot water was clearing coming from below. After checking out the baths we went back to the car and found the exit bollard had been fixed. Check our ticket in the machine... £37.60... used the £25 "lost ticket" option and left to head back to Pen and Stephen's in Walton-on-Thames. Keeping the ticket so if I ever go back to Bath I can see how big the fee has got. Bath is awesome and I definitely recommend it.
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