Stonehenge/ Bath

2 days ago I booked myself a bus day tour to Stonehenge, and the city of Bath. So yesterday we left London by bus with a tour guide and headed to Stonehenge first. Really nice to finally sit in a moving veichle above ground, I'm sure it's been weeks since I have done something as simple as that. 

I met some good people on the bus from Portugal and Brazil. I sat with them on the bus and spent most of the day walking the tour with them. Stonehenge is blocked off by fences and you can only get close to it by going on their busses to the grounds. So we arrived and then had to get on another bus for about 5 minutes while it took us through pastures towards the stones. 

We spent about an hour walking around the entire landscape. It's blocked off by rope as you can see from the pictures, but the rope does get in close at one part and allow you to be very close to the stones. After that we went in the huts they have to represent what they lived in while building Stonehenge. And then there was an exhibition to go through and we could see some real artificts that they have found from the builders and what they used. And some slideshows of what it looked like in each stage of it being built. Very good and interesting afternoon!

After that we were off to the city of Bath, one of England's most visited cities. We were given a guided tour of the Roman Baths and then were given free time to tour the city at our own pace. 

The Roman baths are a type of hot springs. Romans kings and "important people" bathed in these waters. And if someone was sick there was certain water that they would have them drink that would help "cure" them. Or so they said. (If you want to know more just google it, I can't explain it perfectly.) 

Inside the monument it was very cool, a lot of well preserved artificts were still perfectly intact, and the open bath itself was beyond words! You know that it's still the original building just from walking around the bath from the sculptures and the floor you walk on is so old and uneven. They are purposely not fixing it because they want people to see that these were the original bricks and stones used to build the original building. (Again something worth googling if you want to know more.) 

My free time I went off on my own to look and tour the city, such a very old beautiful city. They have a big open courtyard in the middle of the city where you can only walk through, and that's where most of the shops are. Bath is also like a big valley, all the houses circle around the top and then the shops and the city centre are at the bottom in the middle. 

Very great day of touring, I would definitely reccomend the "Anderson tours" to anyone in England. Good price and the guides are beyond friendly and helpful.  

**For all of the pictures on today check out my Facebook- couldn't quite get them all on here but I got most!