点评:I hadn't been to visit Bath in some years and was really shocked by the state it's in. This World Heritage Site looks quite stunning from a distance, but possesses a really gritty urban feel these days. It's a major tourist trap of the worst kind. The standard price for entry to the Roman Baths is about £25.00. How is this justifiable? It might be worth paying that much, however, to escape the decay of this central part of the city, spattered with grafitti, pigeon droppings, homeless people sleeping in doorways, boarded-up listed buildings, loud buskers at every turn, screeching gulls, drunks with their loose dogs sniffing around drains, litter, tacky retail and restaurants and cafes spilling out onto pavements everywhere... In addition, I visited on a day when many thousands more people were attending a half-marathon, with its plethora of metal barriers, traffic cones and parking nightmares. Why does the city invite so much extra activity, which seems to have destroyed its uniqueness? It was such an unpleasant experience, I doubt I'll ever return. The UK seems a broken country if it can't take better care of its heritage sites and has to sell its soul to attract increasing numbers of visitors to spend, baby, spend.
翻译:我已经有几年没去过巴斯了,它现在的状况让我非常震惊。这个世界遗产从远处看非常壮观,但如今却给人一种非常粗犷的城市感觉。这是最糟糕的旅游陷阱。进入罗马浴场的标准票价约为 25 英镑。这怎么能说得过去呢?然而,花这么多钱也许值得,因为可以逃离这个城市中心的衰败,这里到处都是涂鸦、鸽子粪、无家可归的人睡在门口、用木板封住的受保护建筑、到处都是吵闹的街头艺人、尖叫的海鸥、带着流浪狗在下水道里嗅来嗅去的醉汉、垃圾、到处都是低劣的零售店、餐馆和咖啡馆,遍布人行道……此外,我去的时候,正好有成千上万的人参加半程马拉松,到处都是金属护栏、交通锥和噩梦般的停车。为什么这座城市会吸引如此多的额外活动,而这似乎已经破坏了它的独特性?这是一次非常不愉快的经历,我怀疑我永远不会再回来了。如果英国不能更好地保护其遗址,并且不得不出卖自己的灵魂来吸引越来越多的游客来消费,宝贝,消费,那么它似乎是一个支离破碎的国家。