IT is Bath, but not as we know it. An English city famous for its Georgian architecture and spa culture has lately been busy dusting down its Victorian engineering heritage by adapting a 7km stretch of abandoned railway for recreational use. On this spring morning I'm not the only one to forgo Bath's genteel crescents for the gritty cuttings that carry this newly opened "greenway" through the little-visited suburbs and pretty woodlands on the city's south side. Bath's latest attraction has drawn a healthy crowd of hikers and cyclists, some from Germany, but also...
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