RAVEL WET YOUR Plunge into Lonely Planet’s watery

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BATHE in Britain’s only natural thermal waters while gazing out over the hay-hued Georgian buildings of Unesco-listed Bath’s city centre.

Bath has always been the UK’s prime spa destination – at least since the Romans built a bathhouse here to take advantage of the piping hot waters rising from the Pennyquick geological fault at almost 50°C, at a rate of more than a million litres a day.

They dubbed the settlement Aquae Sulis after a goddess.

Today, Thermae Bath Spa has the only naturally thermal and nutrient-rich bathing waters in the whole of Britain.

DODGE the crowds and the crashing waves of North Cornwall and idle away an afternoon in the calm waters of South Cornwall’s favourite hidden cove.

Lantic Bay offers the perfect pit stop on a coastal adventure.

Family-friendly and yet relatively undiscovered, the protected cove can be reached via a detour on a 6.9-mile clifftop walk between the fishing villages Polruan and Polperro.

The southern shoreline promises unspoilt and sheltered sandy pockets dotted between charming neighbourhoods.

AT this plunge pool in a seaside suburb, hardy Dubliners enjoy daily dips in the Irish Sea while culture-seeking travellers soak up the literary links.

When time, tide and sunlight conspire to transform the sea at Sandycove into a turquoisetinted lagoon, a dawn dip in the Forty Foot is the perfect start to a day.

Such moments are all the more special for their rarity.

Usually, the conditions are choppy and the water’s complexion mirrors the mood of the Irish sky.

But whatever the weather, the Forty Foot – which offered a setting to the opening of James Joyce’s Ulysses – is never dull.

The locals have been throwing themselves into the chilly embrace of the Irish Sea here for more than 250 years.