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! 

London

My trial run went good the other day, they are going to call on Friday and tell me if I got the job or not. So again it's a waiting game. I got another call this morning from a restaurant by the Tower of London, they want to set up an interview on Monday. Which is exciting but still another 6 days away and then I may have to wait another week even more before I find out if I get the job. So again more waiting. Oh well nothing I can do about it. 

I found this website however that's called "jobs on tap" and what they do is find jobs (restaurants/bars) with accommodation in the UK for travellers. So basically exactly what I'm doing. I emailed them a resume and hopefully I hear back soon! At this point I would gladly leave London for a job and accommodation! Anything to do at the moment to keep myself busy. 

On Thursday I decided that I'm leaving London for the day and getting out and going somewhere. Either Bath, York or somewhere else close I'm thinking. Just for the day to get out and sight see more. 

The sun is finally shining, after 2 days of constant rain and wind. Can't complain though because I heard it's -21 at home and it's snowing. Where as I'm wearing runners, capris, and a light jacket. 

  

I would also like to wish a Happy 19th birthday to one of my best friends! Hope you had a wonderful day Katy! Love you ❤️ 

St. Paul's Cathedral

I have the smartest cousin in the world! Really she is going to do great things! When I told her I'm a few hours away from Paris by train she was like "what? Isn't Paris in London?".... Ya... That's my smart cousin.. I promised I wouldn't tell who she was so no one would think what a complete and total moron she is.. Don't worry Taya Scherger, your secret is safe with me. 

I got 2 new roommates, they r 2 older ladies from Poland and don't speak a lick of English! They are here visiting the one ladies daughter who lives here in London. The daughter was here helping them move in so I got to meet and talk with her for a bit. She must have told them my name because last night the one lady said "Taylor" and I look up from my bed and she had a bottle of wine and 3 glasses. I laughed and nodded. So the 3 of us drank wine in the room, me not knowing a word they are saying. But still how nice to offer a stranger something to drink at their expense! Just proves that we all drink alcohol in the same language! 

I went to St Paul's Cathedral today, my grandmas are going to be so proud that I went to church. The inside was cool, the architect of the church walls and ceilings are incredible! But my favourite part was going to the top and looking out over the city! More than 400 steps to the top but I made it. At the top its 345ft in the air, looking out over the city and you can see a lot of the main attractions from this view aswell. Tower Bridge, London Eye, The Shard, River of Thyme, Big Ben, etc. 

Getting to the top wasn't the funnest climb. Steps are very steep and very narrow. And at some parts where your climbing up the hallways get so small! I'm not really Claustrophobic but those spaces are so tiny even I was having a little bit of a hard time with it! Once your at the top it's great, minus the wind! Very windy up there, but makes sense your 345ft in the air what do you expect. 

After that I went to a store called Primark, just a clothing store to buy stuff for my trial run. I got a pair of pants, 2 shirts, a pair of shoes and a bracelet for only 30 pounds! (60 dollars) that's Insanely cheap! In Canada it would be double that! But it's crazy because everything in London is so expensive yet this was beyond cheap! 

I saw someone famous today, not a clue who she was. But I was standing on the street on my phone trying to figure out where I was and she was walking on the street and stopped right beside me and just started posing for the dozens of paparazzi following her. It was awesome because I looked so good today. Uh not! I was also looking at my map very confused and then this rando walks beside me and starts posing so I think I gave her the biggest WTF look in the world. Not kidding you I looked at her like she was on drugs. Well that was until I realized she was posing for cameras. So I swear to god if that ends up in the paper or in a magazine I will jump off St Paul's Cathedral because it will be her looking all sexy and seductive and me looking like a homeless confused person. 

I get the feeling that my family totally misses me. Like I'm sure I am all they think about! Well for starters you have Keifer, oh what a guy, I messaged him almost a week ago... Still hasn't responded to me. Oh but wait then there's Laine who I know misses me! We have the same heart bracelets to represent our sister love for one another and I wear mine all the time.. She told me today she hasn't worn hers once since I have been gone and thinks she actually may have lost it... At least Connor misses me. I never get to talk to him unless it's over Skype, I Skyped home the other day, mom and dad were in the living room skyping from the tv. Connor sat on the couch and was on his iPod the entire time, and then after about 5 minutes I think he figured this was boring and went to his room. And now that I think about it I'm pretty sure he didn't even say hi to me. Wow, what a great bunch of siblings I have!!!!