Bath Skyline

I'm supposed to be meeting the Coordinatrix for Evensong at Bath Abbey right now, but my jeans are covered in mud, so I've decided I'm not fit for a church service. I just spent four hours hiking the Bath Skyline Trail with its beautiful views of the city and paths that lead through fields and woods and, once, a cow pasture that was not mentioned in my leaflet and where I tried not to make eye contact with the giant cows who were (seriously) at least twice as big as the sweet Swiss cows we made friends with in Lucerne. Cows can trample you right to death. I got lost about four times but only once was it a frightening I'm-going-to-die-alone-in-Bathampton-Woods kind of lost.


Bath is a World Heritage site because of buildings like the Royal Crescent AND because of the way the town's set into the natural landscape. It's beautiful. Too bad I'm a bad photographer with a mediocre camera so you can't really see it.

This part of the trail goes through a farm (several sections did), but these sheep wouldn't give me the time of day. Further along this path, I had to walk THROUGH the pasture with the horses. Big horses.

This is Sham Castle. It's just a wall built by Ralph Allen in the 1760s to improve the view from his property and give local stonemasons work.

This is the view as I was descending the Skyline Trail back into the city.

I hope this video isn't freaky. I can't view it before posting it (or after posting it). I took it near the beginning of the Trail.