Read a city like a fairytale.
A walking tour and writing workshop · Bath, Summer 2026
The Bath Magical Journey
Bath is not just a beautiful city. It is a city written in layers: Celtic myths, Roman goddesses, Georgian love stories, Jane Austen's heroines still wandering the Assembly Rooms. Every street holds a chapter. Every stone has a story.
For one morning, we read it together.
We walk. We pause. We write. And we end at the beautiful Persephone Books with coffee, cookies, and the question that started it all:
Are you ready to write your own fairytale?
Bath, Summer 2026. Spots are intimate and limited.
A guided magical walk through Bath's most storied locations: Sydney Gardens, River Avon, Parade Gardens, Pulteney Bridge, the Roman Baths, the Assembly Rooms and The Circus
What you'll take home
Writing exercises at every stop, guided by the history and mythology of each place
Your own illustrated workbook to keep
Coffee, cookies and an intimate writing circle at the beautiful Royal Crescent
A new way of reading every city you'll ever walk through again
£65 per person
Dates coming Summer 2026. Spots are limited and intimate.
Why I do this
I spent years travelling the world searching for magic in faraway places - Turkey, New Zealand, Portugal, across 30 countries and counting.
What I discovered is that:
magic was never hiding in the destination, it was in learning how to read a place.
The myths written into its streets. The stories buried beneath its stones. The ordinary Tuesday morning that becomes extraordinary the moment you know what you're looking at.
When I found that lens, everywhere became a fairytale. And Bath with its Celtic goddesses, Georgian love stories, Roman mysteries and Jane Austen heroines still wandering its Assembly Rooms was where I first learned to share it.
These workshops are my way of giving that lens to you.
What People Are Saying
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"The greatest gift for me was to recapture a sense of magic that I haven’t felt in my home city for a long time. And the even greater gift of knowing how to tap into it whenever I want."
- Maritza, Amsterdam
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“I loved the sense of sisterhood Derya and you fostered in the group through the intro exercises and lots of opportunities to chat and connect as we walked around."
- Tessa, Bath/UK
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“The writing exercises and prompts were so helpful at kickstarting my creative writing flow. Derya’s knowledge of the city was so vast and deep I now feel full of stories, and I know how to get them out."
- Izzy, Bath/UK
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"The variety of locations and activities was so delicious, and put me in touch with my heart and my feelings, which I know helps me to write better"
- Jesicca, Bath/UK
Amsterdam Coming Soon
Crooked houses. Candlelit canals. Centuries of stories waiting to be read.
The Magical Journey is coming to Amsterdam. Join the waitlist to be the first to know when spots open