Stonehenge, Bath, and a Nice Evening

With a late bar night, not many people got much sleep, but we had plenty of time to sleep on the 2.5 hour drive from Greenwich to Stonehenge. The trip is shorter if you are on the other side of London and do not have to deal with the morning traffic.  The trip is very beautiful but you can only see so many sheep before it gets repetitive!  We were paired up with a high school tour, and the tour guide treated us like high schoolers.  I was "put in charge" of our group because I was the oldest!  When we got to stonehenge we were given an audio tour to listne to as your walk around the monumnet  You are about 20 metres away the entire tour around the stones, but it is large enough that you don't notice being far away.  The tour was pretty comical with the conspiracies, and lack of true knowledge of how anything actually occurred there.  They honestly have no idea, and therefore every sentance started with, "They probably wanted this" or "things could have looked like this."  You have to give them some slack though because the area has not been used since 2500 BC.

First picture I took, ended up being the best.

In between Stonehenge, which is is Wiltshire, and Bath, England is another hour and a half drive, and our guide didn't stop talking the entire way there.  The chaperones for the other trip where just eating everything he said.   

We immediately went on the Roman Bath tours when we arrived.  Unfortunately in the middle ages, the British took very poor care of early monuments, and artifacts, and they actually build a house on top of the baths and didnt even realize they were there until someone wanted to renovate their home.  There was a pretty cool exhibition of the place with another audio tour which took almost an hour to go through.  We were very hungry so we went nearby and to la Baguette which sells very cheap baguettes.  They are rightfully cheap because there is not much meat at all in the sandwich, but they will fill you up.  We walked around and were again quite entertained by the great British street performers.

One of the few that turned out well.  (Tower of London)

On the way back we stopped for Fish and Chips for the first time on the trip, and the food was quite good at the North pole in Greenwich.  It was pretty late already since it took so long to get back and forth from Stonehenge and Bath.  Be prepared to use most of a day when planning an excursion like this one. I really enjoy looking at cities at night and taking pictures of them, so I journeyed out and took some night photography and just tooled around.  It was a lot of fun and I ran into several other photographers along the way.  I enjoyed even if I wasn't quite successful.  Wish I had a tripod with me!