What trip to England would be complete without visiting Bath. Named after the largest "baths" of the Roman Empire outside of Rome, the entire town was originally built to support the baths, which are built around a natural thermal spa. Bath is now equally well known as one of the finest townscapes of Georgian architecture in the world. So, both historically and visually overloading. What better way to start than to take take the open top bus around town. Then a beer. Then the Roman Baths - to look, not to use. Very clever people those Romans. Invented underfloor heating too.

There is no more impressive apartment complex than the "Cresent". A Georgian masterpiece. A 5 bedroon flat here will set you back just under $3m Australian - and this is not a major city. This is a photo of the adjacent "circus", almost as exclusive and easier to photograph.

Before we left England we spent a couple of days in London. Having seen the sights before we explored a bit more of the canal system and where it starts (or finishes). We went on a 100 year old narrow boat on the Grand Union canal from just near Paddington (bet you didn't know there was a working canal here) at an area know locally as Little Venice and travelled to Camden, another suburb of inner London. The canal winds through Regents Park, past $30m villas, through the zoo, through a tunnel, all the while with tree lined banks - all in inner London. A very different London.

We were seen off from London by a small friend we had made in Hyde park who made us promise to return soon.