Saturday, March 08, 2025
Follow the Bear and you might get the prize
Bath the Beautiful, from Bristol University to Paddington Bear
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/bath-the-beautiful-7a00941d8860
This series does not bring many questions to mind because it is more of a cultural trip to a famous city that has nothing to do with crime, the city of Bath, the highly fashionable Spa of the capitalist era in the 19th century, under Victoria and her successors. It has become a year-round tourist destination, nearly a tourist trap. What's funny is that it is midway (or nearly so) between Bristol and Paddington Station in London. Tourist advisors consider the London-Bath-Bristol trip to be worth one or two days with the spa itself in Bath and the suspended bridge to Wales in Bristol. There is a lot more in Bristol, even cultural or dangerous, but Bath is a city for peaceful, quiet, and cozy people, not adventurers or mile-trotters.
So take your patience in your front pocket and your credit card in your back pocket, and since you are on a trip from London, stop over in Reading and remember Oscar Wilde and his short vacation in the prison of this intellectual city of Reading, for gay exploration adventures with the son of a noble Lord, or somebody of the type who will remain faithful to the poet and playwright all his life. Nostalgia is all we have left when the future seems denied to us by age, weather turbulences, and crazy capers blocking any view of what the future could be. So let's imagine Bath could be an interesting crime nest or cocoon.
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Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper
A short and eventful trip to Bath, from London Paddington or Bristol Temple Meads is a perfect adventure to a simple and comfortable experience.
Bath the Beautiful by Jacques Coulardeau 2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
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