Enter the top entrance of Jolly’s; walk straight through Shoes and Lingerie, down the back steps and into John Street, a quiet, narrow street where you will be able to hear your own footfall on the pavement. Opposite is the auction house, Bonhams, and written on the wall of the building is a long extract from the Magna Carta. Who wrote it on the wall, and why, I don’t know. Walk along John Street and its cobbled continuation, Queen Street to Trim Bridge, a building which spans the street. In these two streets, you pass 3 ‘real shops’, see the website above.

At Trim Bridge, continue straight ahead, cross over Upper Borough Walls (to the left is the section of old city wall), and walk down Parsonage Lane which is paved and narrow, uninteresting and empty but used to be one of the main thoroughfares in the medieval town but no more than a cart wide. At the foot of Parsonage Lane, cross busy Westgate Street, and to the left is a narrow passage way, with a hanging sign that reads “Little Theatre” which is an art house cinema. Take the passageway, which widens considerably and ahead of you is the Cross Bath, the site of one of the three thermal springs. Walk past the Cross Bath and at the Royal Hot Bath, turn left into BEAU STREET! wher you will find your self catering apartment.