Monday, October 8, 2012

4 October 2012: Bath, England

THURSDAY
Breakfast: banana and milk chocolate digestive cookies.
View of Bath.
Hanging laundry.
Roman City Property Management and Tangerine to Let. Some of the several real estate agents I went to in search of an apartment, though unfortunately, they didn't have anything.
Obelisk at Royal Victoria Park. In 1857, Russian guns captured from the Crimean War were placed near the obelisk.
 School children chilling in a tree. Royal Victoria Park.
Royal Crescent from the park.
 The Bath Royal Literacy and Scientific Institute had an exhibit of relics of the Crimean War. 
In October 1853, the Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia; France and Britain entered the Allied forces with the Ottoman Empire five months later. In 1855, the Kingdom of Sardinia joined the Allied forces. The mostly took place on the Crimean Peninsula. Disputes over the privileges of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in the Holy Land and the protection of the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan prompted the war. The Allied victory in the Crimean War was captured with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in March 1856. 


 Short walk around town after a rain shower.
 Picked up some food from Marks & Spencer. Walked back to the hostel.