Bath is one of England's most popular tourist destinations and has, along with the Tower of London, Denmark's Ilulissat Icefjord, and 809 other locations around the world, been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

David lives in nearby Swindon, which most definitely won't be added to that list in the near future, and Kay is working in nearby Wells so we decided Bath made the ideal destination for a sunny trip. The day turned out to be fairly random, ranging from sitting in the park watching a nearby performance of A Midsummer Nights Dream, through Kay buying an eclectic second hand Leica camera, to my purchase of a £10 Ukulele which I'll no doubt be annoying everyone with very soon.

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My flatmate from university, Paul, had tickets for the filming of this week's epsiode of Have I Got News For You, and I was lucky enough to get a spare ticket. As with most tv show filmings in London the tickets were free, however to ensure that the seats are filled the tv company oversells tickets. Turn up when the doors open and you probably won't get in. In true British tradition, we turned up 1 hour early to and patiently queued behind 90 others. Unfortunately, our seats were to the left of stage, with a spectacular view of some scaffolding directly in front of us. A few tv screens made sure we kept up with jokes when Hislop was talking, and the view of Merton was spot on.

Alongside regulars Ian Hislop and Paul Merton was guest presenter Jeremy Clarkson. Clarkson lived up to his car loving reputation "Global warming? Bollocks", and was spectacularly poor at reading the autocue: "We don't use these on Top Gear, I'm rubbish". Two and a half hours of filming covered everything from John Prescott's croquet game on the lawn of his Dorney Wood mansion to Peter Crouch's robot dance. It's a shame you don't get to see the whole thing on tv, but someone managed to edit out the swearing and rather less funny bits down to the 30 minute slot the show gets on a Friday night. If you can make it, get down there.

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