Friday 30 August 2019

In A Couple Of Weeks Time

we will hopefully be staying in Bath,


which many of us will know is a Roman Town with allegedly hot healing springs, but the town had a long history before the Romans, that included a King that could fly! the King was enjoying the area's warm mineral springs, Bladud, the ninth king of Briton, (not Britain that was later), stumbled upon the springs around 863 BC, according to the earliest record of his reign, which was the 12th-century chronicle History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth. That's the same source for what we know about King Arthur, so you may take it with a grain of salt, anyway, the legend of Bath tells how Bladud was cured of a disfiguring skin disease by the miraculous springs. That story is surpassed by the time Bladud, as king, built himself a pair of wings so that he could fly, both tales are charmingly told by Margo Lestz at The Curious Rambler, image credit Smalljim, you never know when we get there we may have a bath in Bath, I have always wanted to say that!


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