Off to Bath Spa in the spring

The sun is bright. It's like Andalucia in Swindon.  Here we are on the Old Canal Walk on the way to the station.  

And here I am having lunch in Bath with my lovely ex colleagues.  

Bath is such a beautiful old Gerogian town on the Kennet and Avon Canal and railway line.   I remember walking the full length of the former a few years ago.  

The girls go shopping then I am off to the Holbourne  

I am here to see bruegel-defining-a-dynasty-exhibition  

The paintings are great.  Full of character, detail and skill. But I don't learn enough about the dynasty.  I come away thinking Pieter the Elder kicked it all off by inventing a style that departed form the same old religious stuff or portraits of rich people. In this single room, I see peasant life and nature brilliantly depicted in painstaking detail.  

I love the nick names. Velvet and Fleur 

The cheeky chappies above are 'Two peasants binding a faggot' by Pieter_Brueghel_the_Younger   c1620-25  

Here is an interesting  article about the dynasty

I also like this scene Wedding Dance in the Open Air 1607-14 also by PB the Y

Back into town to meet TT for the train.  The station is chaos with frequent delays but we are used to that.  Love Bath. 

Home in the car from Swindon and it's fish and chips with the final episode of Broadchurch.