Though only twelve miles from Bristol, BATH has a very different feel from its neighbour - more harmonious, compact, leisurely and complacent. The city's elegant crescents and Georgian buildings are studded with plaques naming Bath's eminent inhabitants from its heyday as a spa resort; it was here that Jane Austen wrote Persuasion and Northanger Abbey , and where Gainsborough established himself as a portraitist and landscape painter. Nowad... [More]