Bath holidays
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You don’t need to be a wine expert to enjoy well-chosen bottles by the glass at this friendly wine bar with food. By Jay Rayner
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21 May 1973: Architecture writer James Lees-Milne fears the historic city has been ‘wantonly and systematically mutilated’
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When our writer took the waters in Bath, he found the spa at a new hotel so luxurious he felt he was back in Roman times
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A film bringing a statue of the novelist to life is drawing in the virtual crowds
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From a Canadian bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students, some of the world’s most exotic booksellers feature in The Bookshop Book, published as part of a UK-wide Books are My Bag campaign to support the bookselling industry in the run-up to Christmas. Its author Jen Campbell introduces some of the finest
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Bath festival reclaims world record from American Austen fans
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The latest in the Pig country house hotel chain claims to be 'just a restaurant with rooms' but its spacious rooms, huge gardens and spa treatments belie such modest claims
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The Tour de France starting in Yorkshire and the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow are just two of the events set to make the UK a top destination for tourists in 2014
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Soak up the last of the sun at Cabo de Gata, enjoy Britain's after-dark highlights and discover the four most elegant places to stay in Bath – whatever your budget
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Billed as the only surviving Georgian open air swimming baths in the UK, it will cost an estimated £3m to restore the centre
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Chef Mitch Tonks recommends a food-lover's trip around south-west England: from great restaurants in Bath and Bristol to the best seafood in Devon and Cornwall
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Country diary: Shepton Mallet, Somerset: From the stars of the livestock rings to the maypole on the green, the Royal Bath & Wells Show has the sense of a great regional carnival
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Baguette recipes, bistros and boules, it's time to say 'Allo 'Allo to an unexpected side of Bath, the most English of spa towns
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A moderately long but well-marked circular walk with fabulous views of Bath. You'll pass an 18th-century landscape garden with elegant and eccentric follies, and lovely, peaceful woodland
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Visit Belfast's famous shipyard; take a break in Bath; and enjoy a trio of painterly scenes in Yorkshire
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Stay in a 19th-century farm labourer's cottage in Shropshire or a regency townhouse in Bath, or watch Vikings wage war on Lindisfarne Priory, says Abigail Cattell
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Joanna MacGregor's fearlessly eclectic approach has given the once-staid MusicFest a palpable buzz, writes Rian Evans
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Bath may be famous for set-pieces like the Royal Crescent but Martin Wainwright's favourite spot is a row of cottages overlooking the city. It is not called Perfect View for nothing
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Martin Wainwright's favourite spot in Bath – a row of cottages overlooking the city called Perfect View – holds special memories
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Despite the obstructive tactics of Bath's so-called aesthetic guardians, the Holburne Museum extension is a triumph, writes Rowan Moore
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Get past the terrible name and the less than alluring location beneath a hair salon, and you'll find some really rather wonderful Nepalese cooking, says John Lanchester
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From Mexican veggie burgers in Berlin to courgette fritters in Argentina, Been there readers share their tips on where to find the best meat-free treats
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Bath skyline route tops league as number of downloads rises 40% in a year
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What better way to get over that New Year's Day hangover than with a big fry-up? We asked you for your favourite places to tuck in – here are the best of the tips
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Jane Austen heroines never travel – but if you must leave your Georgian pile, go and take the waters in Bath
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Actors and virtual models animate £5.5m overhaul of historic attraction
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This month, Guardian Travel's 'budget eats' series is in Bath. What do you think of our top 10, and where did we miss?
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Shortcuts Will Bath dare to become the first UK city with a ‘tourist tax’?