Bath, England and Cardiff, Wales

I went with my family to Bath, England to see the Roman Baths that are there. Hot springs naturally flow here, so the Romans (dating back to B.C.) travelled here and built stone buildings around them. They used this as a vacation place and as a sacred place to sacrifice and worship their pagan gods. This means it's one of the oldest buildings in England. The hot springs still come to the surface here, and you can feel the heat over the pools. It was interesting to walk through the ruins of the building and see the baths. The Bath Abbey was right outside the Roman Baths, so we also looked inside. It was a beautiful old church. Then we walked around the town of Bath, and saw many of the old stone buildings. Jane Austen also lived in Bath for a few years, so there's a Jane Austen Center there that we went into.

Then we took a train to Cardiff, Wales. We went to Cardiff Castle, which was right in the city. The castle mostly was a place where rich people lived in history. There were castle walls, a large open space in the center, a keep in the center, and the Victorian House, which is where the rich lived. The castle never really saw battle, but still has lots of history involved. More information about the castle is in the captions of my photos.

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