It's bloomin' lovely in Bath

We went to Bath for a few days over new year to see in NYE with some friends and celebrate one's 30th Birthday, which meant we spent a lot of timing in pubs and not much time exploring (and eating in) the pretty town centre. We did manage a visit the thermal spa pre-house party which was lovely and highly recommended, especially the roof top pool overlooking the cityscape.

On new year's day, very hungover, we went for a little walk around the rainy town centre and stumbled across one of the many coffee shops, this one was independent, really homely and once we were served the food we knew we had made a good choice. Jacobs coffee house had some really cute typography as the logo and served up pieminster pies, amazing looking cakes and a great selection of tea's and coffee, a great antidote to the amount of alcohol we consumed the previous night.

Mat went for a cappuccino which was excellently prepared and tasted (and looked) amazing.

We then went for the daily changing homemade soup of spicy parsnip, orange and mango served with warm foccia, something I am going to try once my new soup blender arrives as it was delicious. the texture was perfect - thick and creamy.

We also shared a scone with jam and clotted cream, again it was great. I want to go back to Bath based on the food in this place alone!

We stayed about a 20 minute walk out of the town in a b&b called Ashley Villa's that we had to our whole group whilst the owners were on holiday for the festive period and it was great fun!