Tiles to seal round a bath

Our bath was fitted after the walls were tiled (before my time here), so any water running down the tiles could and did get behind the bath. SWMBO bought a curved plastic strip (a bit like upside down coving) that sort of solved the problem and was stuck to tiles and bath with some black gunky goo a bit like mastic. All very well for a short term bodge but hardly pretty and latterly the goo has been oozing out from behind to make it pretty unsightly. Clearly, the right thing to do is to re-tile properly and re-position the bath, but I'm looking for a better short term fix until we make a proper job of the whole room.

One plan I've thought of is to add a row of border-type tiles just around the top of the bath and seal with silicone etc. Haven't found the right thing yet but I'm thinking that something like a quadrant- shaped jobby should do the job. (Why doesn't anyone seem to make proper edge tiles any more? Cost, I'm sure, but those plastic strips are pretty naff.)

So, the questions: Has anyone encountered this mastic-y stuff and successfully removed it? Looks like it could be a bit of a pain to shift unless I can find a suitable solvent (which I can't really do by trial and error before taking the strip off). What's the best way of getting key on the existing tiles to take the adhesive for the new ones? Abrading the glaze seems like one option, perhaps a little tricky to get right, but painting something on might have some mileage.

Cheers all

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