{"id":215,"date":"2004-07-03T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2004-07-03T03:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-03T03:48:00","slug":"under-the-spell-of-sulis-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Under the Spell of Sulis-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back from England, I am planning several blog posts as I edit the photos and video clips to go with them. <\/p>\n

Left: the base of a column that once helped to support a high, vaulted roof over the main swimming pool in the Roman baths<\/a>, rebuilt in the 2nd century CE., when the town was known as Aquae Sulis, the waters of the goddess Minerva Sulis.<\/em><\/p>\n

I spent four days in Bath<\/a>, the town that grew up around the only significant hot springs in England, which have been a site of worship, therapy, and pleasure-seeking for centuries–and under Roman rule, visitors could have combined all three in a way never since equaled.<\/p>\n

To get a feel for Bath, you might imagine what Santa Fe, New Mexico, might have been like if the center of town included the hot springs from Ojo Caliente<\/a> or Jemez<\/a>. Like Santa Fe, Bath is clogged with tourists, every third business is a restaurant, and you probably want a fat bank account to live there, and yet, underneath, its energy is flowing.<\/p>\n

For me, a bonus to visiting Bath and the nearby port city of Bristol is that when making hotel reservations, etc., I never had to spell out my surname. Everyone was familiar with it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More soon. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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