watching Robert (the hosts' dachshund) burrow his way into the linen piled on the swing seat outside. He is a very cute wee dog and had to oversee everything that was going on around the place. Our hosts at this B&B are Kevin (an ex truck driver from Hamilton) and his wife Billie. They are a very helpful and friendly couple.We walked into town (about 20 minutes or so) and then did a 2.5 hour free walking tour of the inner city which was great. Its a good way to find out lots of interesting facts about the general history and to notice things that you might otherwise walk past. After lunch we then headed to Pulteney Bridge (Bath's version of the Ponte Vecchio) 
and then up to the Assembly Rooms/Tea Room/Fashion Museum which included a display of Princess Diana's dresses (David was absolutely riveted during this particular section). After this we went round No. 1 The Crescent 
(a Georgian house on the very edge of the Crescent) which has been restored to its former glory before taking a short break just lying in the sun outside on the park lawns. 
In the kitchens of the house they had a wheel set up above the fire demonstrating how they used to get dogs to run in the wheel (like hamsters do) in order to keep the meat turning on the spit below. Evidently they kept teams of dogs for this purpose. I could imagine the invitations "Would you care to come round for supper.... I will get the hounds to run up a roast for us" or "Sorry the meat is undercooked but the dog fell asleep". They also had mouse traps on show and we were told that they used to recycle the mouse skins to make eyebrows (they evidently had lots of skin and hair problems due to the make-up and wigs that they wore constantly).
In the kitchens of the house they had a wheel set up above the fire demonstrating how they used to get dogs to run in the wheel (like hamsters do) in order to keep the meat turning on the spit below. Evidently they kept teams of dogs for this purpose. I could imagine the invitations "Would you care to come round for supper.... I will get the hounds to run up a roast for us" or "Sorry the meat is undercooked but the dog fell asleep". They also had mouse traps on show and we were told that they used to recycle the mouse skins to make eyebrows (they evidently had lots of skin and hair problems due to the make-up and wigs that they wore constantly).We then walked back down to Bath Abbey 
and had a look through there before completing the day with another tour of the Roman Baths/Pump House covering the bits we had missed last night. 
and had a look through there before completing the day with another tour of the Roman Baths/Pump House covering the bits we had missed last night. By this stage our feet had done enough so we took a taxi home rather than face the climb up the hill in the rain!
Tomorrow we farewell Cleo (our Renault Clio rental car) and head for London on the train.
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