3 reasons to visit Bath

Living by the sea may help when tracking down fish and chips, but it’s not essential, as this restaurant proves. The Scallop Shell serves shellfish and grilled and fried fish – from River Fowey mussels to classic battered haddock and chips – as well as a handful of veggie and meat specials in a rough-round-the-edges setting.

2. Berdoulat & Breakfast

A new b&b in a Georgian townhouse? Not so unusual. But Berdoulat & Breakfast is a step up in the style stakes. Not only have its owners, Patrick and Istanbul-born Neri, revamped the building (designed in 1748 by John Wood the Elder), they’ve also remodelled the guesthouse breakfast. Alongside granola or bacon and eggs, you’ll find a Turkish breakfast including pomegranate salad, flaky cheese pastries, figs, honey-drizzled ewe’s cheese and baked eggs with sage.

3. The Great Bath Feast

Running throughout October, this annual celebration includes tastings, tutorials, tea parties and a Mad Hatter’s Masquerade Dinner to mark the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland. Other highlights are a pop-up gin palace in the Holburne Museum, a specialist cheese festival within Bath Abbey, tours of an underground mushroom farm, and an introduction to fermentation with cookbook author Charlotte Pike.

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