English Heritage: Bath and Stonehenge

That was a fantastic trip. Yes, it was quite cold and windy, but Bath and Stonehenge are definitely worth getting up at 6:45am, even if it's Sunday and the weather is not so good.

So, early in the morning, we bought our roundtrip tickets from London Paddington to Bath and got on the train and... off we go! It's a 2-hour-trip, so we had some time to kill...

9:30 in the morning...

An alien?

Oh, come on, Rob, knock it off, it's Sunday, stop checking your emails...

1 bottle of champagne and 3 beers later we successfully arrived to Bath. It's a lovely town, with charming little streets and - of course:

This is supposedly the best preserved Roman religious spa from the ancient world. It's indeed well preserved and indeed really impressive:

Great Bath

Lots of steam!

Yes, this water was hot!

Great Bath and Bath Abbey behind it

West Baths

And for as little as 50p you can even taste the hot spa water!

After about an hour in the Roman Baths we went to the tourist information centre and booked our tickets for a bus to Stonehenge. As we still had c.a. 2 hours before the departure, we walked around the beautiful town of Bath.

Main street in Bath - lots of pubs, shops and of course tourists

Bath Abbey

Bath Abbey from a different angle

Unfortunately the Hobgoblin Pub was closed...

... but it didn't take us too long to find another one, where we had some chips and onion rings. We ate them before I remebered to take a pic, but to give you some idea of what we had - here is a picture of something that goes really well with the onion rings:

Colman's Mustard. REALLY spicy!

We then jumped on the bus which was supposed to take us straight to Stonehenge. But, there was one stop before the final destination - The Village of Lacock, where some parts of the movie Harry Potter were shot and where... the oldest Inn in the UK is located. We skipped the Harry Potter part and as we only had 10 minutes, our efforts were focused on the The George Inn, which, according to the owners and the leaflet dates back to the year 1361. 10 minutes is more than enough time to have half a pint of good English ale and to take some bartender classes though.

If I get fired one day, I surely have some back-up experience - for 2 minutes I was a bartender in the oldest pub in the United Kingdom!

C.a. 30 minutes and about 5 "tank crossing"-sings later we finally arrived to Stonehenge. It was cold, windy and quite unpleasant, but - hey, this was the most outstanding prehistoric monument in the British Isles! (at least so I am told)

Looks familiar?

Really, really cold...

Me and Caitlin. Both freezing.

No idea why they put them there, but everyone was taking a pic of these sheep. Well, I couldn't do anything, but follow the crowd...

To sum up - that was an absolutely brilliant trip. I am glad I am in the UK and get to see all those famous things. Next weekend (actually - on Thursday) I am going to Scotland and I'll celebrate St Patrick's Day in Edinburgh. I'll surely keep you updated!