The trip here was uneventful, but mostly because I boarded the train as soon as I could & got a seat. Not everyone did, because it was full of folks going to Penzance whose train was supposed to be leaving from Paddington, but was instead leaving from Reading. I don’t know why.
Anyway, I had a window seat, so I read and dozed my way to Bath. The train staff gave up on the idea of moving through the train, so no ticket checks, and the tea/coffee/snack cart parked itself in one place and made “I’m in this carriage, but only come to get stuff if it’s safe to do so” announcements.
Finding this week’s place was surprisingly easy, and … It’s very nice.
Monday was a holiday, and I spent most of it just sort of wandering around Bath. I found the Royal Crescent by following an arty map from the wall of the place I’m staying, and The Circus by accident in the process.
Tuesday, … How to cover Tuesday?
Tuesday wasn’t great. I’m not entirely sure why, but work was frustrating & annoying, and that kind of spilled over into the rest of the day.
Let’s just skip over Tuesday, shall we?
Wednesday?
Better than Tuesday, but still annoying.
On the plus side, I did go for a walk ‘upriver’ to find a pub formerly owned/run by the folks who now own/run our not really local pub in Aylesbury. Didn’t go in, because a pub is absolutely the last place I want to be after two annoying days in a row, but it was beside a bridge with the now standard picturesque view of the Avon, so that was worth the trip.
I think I should stop doing the day by day report; On any given working week, unless it’s an odd week or I’m doing a bunch of coworking space trips, it’s going to be something in the Good Day/Bad Day spectrum, and even I’m getting bored reporting on that.
So, Thursday was a better day, though I’m not sure why. I was feeling a bit unwell in the lungs the last few days, so maybe that had something to do with it? Anyway, tried Quiet Street Coffee for a morning beverage, and they were pretty good. And I went for a stroll down the canal to see what was there. (A couple of really sunk boats at one place)
Friday, sadly, started well but descended into shit as the day went on. My planned “get these things done” turned into “how in the hell is that system which has been specifically disabled so that it can’t access the outside world doing the very thing that it is specifically not supposed to be doing?”, which ate the rest of the day.
I did try another coffee place for the morning; The Bath Coffee Company, which is a little place in one of the many squares around here. Got to sit at a little outside table & enjoy the morning before going to work, which was quite pleasant.
I really do wish I was enjoying Bath more; It’s nice, and there’s pretty architecture and some nice parks, but the week of work bullshit really is affecting my view of the place. Doing the Roman Baths tour thing tomorrow, so hopefully that, plus the weekend, will improve things.