Traveling to another country usually gets you views of a built environment that is in some respects fundamentally different than the one you’re used to. London is, for a New Yorker, the worst place in the UK to get that feeling because of the many similarities between the two cities, but Bath doesn’t look like any place in the US.
It’s a combination of the general use of “Bath stone”, a warm-colored limestone, the consistent architecture resulting from the fact that much of the center city was built in a relatively short period of time in the eighteenth century, and the British style of building long rows of absolutely identical houses.
The first picture above looks across a chunk of the downtown area, across the River Avon (not seen because it’s in a gorge below the ground level where I was) and to the nearby countryside. The second is not one of the more famous rows of houses, but it’s still remarkable.
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