Saturday · Bath in Full Daylight

10:00 — 12:00 // 2 hours

The Roman Baths

Abbey Churchyard · the city's centrepiece

Two thousand years old and still fed by the same hot spring the Romans bottled. The audio guide is excellent — there's even one narrated by Bill Bryson. Steam rises off the green water; you can smell the sulphur. Easily a 90-minute visit, often longer.

Skip the queue Book online for a 10am slot. Walk-up tickets often hit a 90-minute wait by mid-morning, especially weekends.

5 min walk · across the abbey square

12:15 — 12:45 // photo + stroll

Pulteney Bridge

Over the River Avon

One of only four bridges in the world with shops along both sides — the other three are in Italy. Walk across, look back at the weir for the postcard shot, then have a coffee in one of the bridge cafés. It's the kind of view Amina will keep coming back to in photos.

10 min walk · through the old town

13:00 — 14:30 // long lunch

Lunch · The Pump Room

Or Sally Lunn's, if we want history with our bun

The Pump Room serves lunch in a Georgian ballroom with live piano — full English experience, slightly theatrical, definitely worth it once. Alternative: Sally Lunn's, where they've been baking the same brioche-style buns since 1680. Both are 3 minutes from each other.

Reserve The Pump Room takes bookings online. Saturday lunch fills up by Thursday — book this week.

12 min walk · uphill, through Queen Square

14:45 — 16:15 // wander

The Royal Crescent & The Circus

Bath's most-photographed terraces

Thirty Georgian townhouses curving around a vast lawn — the Royal Crescent is the British "wow" moment of the trip. Then The Circus a few hundred metres away: a perfect ring of houses inspired by the Colosseum. Walk it slowly. There's a small museum at No. 1 Royal Crescent if anyone wants to peek inside one of the houses.

15 min walk · back down to the spa

17:30 — 19:30 // optional · highly recommended

Thermae Bath Spa

Rooftop pool at sunset · Hot Bath Street

A modern spa fed by the same Roman hot springs — but the magic is the open-air rooftop pool. As the light drops, steam rises off the water, the abbey lights up across the rooftops, and Haruna and Amina realise they're floating in 33°C water in the middle of a UNESCO city. £40pp, books out for weekends, worth it for the memory.

Book ahead Bring swimsuits. They provide robes & towels. Two-hour session is plenty.

10 min walk · across town

20:30 onwards // dinner

Dinner & bed

The hotel, then home tomorrow

End the day at Beckford Canteen (modern British, candlelit, locals' favourite) or Sotto Sotto (Italian, in a vaulted cellar). Walk back through the empty Georgian streets — Bath at night is a different city. Tomorrow we drive home, slowly, via the prettiest villages in England.