Being new to the UK I had to do my touristy duties and check off some of the things on my to do list. For this particular trip my friends and I got out of London and headed to Stonehenge.
That Saturday we arrived and joined the other Stonehenge patrons in taking pictures and learning about the history of the giant rocks. The claims as to how and why the rocks were there was one of the most interesting parts of the trip. I guarantee, however you think they got there, there is someone that believes it with you or believes something much more far fetched. Some people think that it was just a group of really strong people, but that idea is not as much fun.
I like the suggestion that it was wizards and magic or maybe giants. But the particular and specific way the rocks line up with each other and the sun, enforce the notion that this cluster of massive rocks was not placed together by accident. As interesting as Stonehenge was, there is only so much time you can spend staring at rocks. We took our pictures and headed to our next destination, Bath.
Bath was wonderful! I have decided that you could move to Bath and basically disappear. It would we so easy to be disconnected from the rest of the world. The streets were not crowded and no one was in a hurry, people were just enjoying the day. We could not go to Bath and not take a tour of the Roman Baths. The baths were preserved so well it was amazing to think that the Romans built them so long ago. We learned much of the history of the baths, like how they were not just for bathing, but for socializing and business deals, which seems quite odd today.
I am not sure what I thought it was going to look like, but for some reason the sheer size of the bathing house was astonishing. There were multiple pools, long corridors and changing rooms. We were told that even though there was water in the bath not to touch it because it was not clean. As we made our way out there was a spout that spilled into a sink that allowed for people to have a drink. It was said that back when the baths were popular, the water was known to heal people through consumption. I skipped that part of the experience; if they did not want us to touch it, I was not going to drink it. But to each his own I guess!
Full of shops and pubs, we spent the rest of the day in Bath. We watched a few street performers and did some shopping. Down the street from the Roman Baths was a crowded pub, so we relaxed for a while before returning to London that evening.