Even during the Georgian heyday of the Bath spa the original Roman baths were buried. The Victorians discovered them trying to fix a drainage problem. 
The Roman statues were a Victorian addition. Their idea of what the original baths looked like.
This small city, celebrated for its mineral springs, is about 2 hours west of London. We spent a day and a half here.
River Avon
Royal Crescent (from Bath's Georgian heyday).
Garden south of the Crescent.
The Circle.
Gay Street. (south of the Circle).
Hyde park
Iggy Pop flogging car insurance. You could see these ads all over Britain.
Trafalgar Square is near the government center of Westminster and Whitehall. It's where the big political demonstrations take place. On this Sunday there was a celebration of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.
I asked why the celebration was today when Eid was two week earlier and was told this was the only good date the organizers could get to use the square. 
It was a good way for her to travel to other countries but still being able to invite those countries' heads of state to dine on her own turf. 
This was one of about three different staff lounges in the Yacht. To avoid fraternization within the hierachy, each level of crew had it's own place to socialize.
Holyrood, the royal palace in Scotland.
Views of Edinburgh ... 
... from up on this mesa-like rock.
The "Royal Mile". Once the heart of government and commerce in Edinburgh, now most of the people and activity here involve tourism. 
... and Edinburgh has oodles of tourists, Spanish and Italians in particular. 
You might think a cheesy tourist place like this would have a Scot wearing a kilt behind the counter, but no! It was run by a Polish woman. (Pictured here on the left smoking a cigarette.) 
... She was saving up her wages to study for a masters in Naval Architecture back in Poland. 
This chapel is the oldest building in the castle.
... and small inside.
The first night we stayed in a hostel catering to hard drinking twenty-somethings. Carol hated it so we moved to a cheap chain hotel the next night.
The blue towel gives their slogan.
Edinburgh used to be the capital of Scotland and now it is again because Scotland got it's own parliament in 1999. It's the building on the left. (The old building in the center is the palace of Holyrood where the Queen stays when she's in Scotland). Edinburgh was the old capital as the seat of the old parliament until Scotland merged with England in the early 1700's.
The Parliament building's architecture is ... controversial.
