Bath & Stonehenge

A day trip to Bath and Stonehenge is a great way to spend a Saturday out of London to get away from all the chaos and rushing around, and also a great way to spend a mid-July summer’s day; it’s just a wee bit unfortunate that an English summer tends to consist of cold, grey, wet weather. The weather wasn’t going to dampen my spirits on this little trip out though. So on a rainy Saturday morning Neil and I were up early to make our way to Baker Street to be collected by our tour bus. The drive out to Stonehenge was nothing special, mainly due to the fact that the drive was along a big motorway.

I didn’t really have any expectations on what to expect from Stonehenge other than they were a ring of massive rocks that were made about 3000BC and no one knew how or why. And that’s pretty much all Stonehenge is, it wasn’t the nicest of days to be walking around taking a look as it was raining, but it was good to go and see and hear a little about the history behind Stonehenge.

After a short stop at Stonehenge, we were back in the bus and on our way to Bath via all the old back roads, which was lovely as it was really nice to see some country side and little towns for a change. Unfortunately once we’d made it to Bath we had a very limited amount of time to spend looking around due to the tour only being a day, fortunately I was lucky in that Bath is only a small town and you can get a good feel for what it’s like a have a good walk around in a few hours. So first stop was the Roman Baths, these were really nice though I did imagine them to be much more spectacular and much bigger, but I was still happy with what I saw. Once we’d seen the Roman Baths Neil and I decided to have a walk around grab some lunch and hope that the rain would stop.
After the rain had stopped and we were full on our lunch, we went for a walk through a lovely park and then along the river so I had a good chance to get all snap happy with my camera and take some lovely photos. To end the day in Bath we went to a little traditional English café for cream tea (tea and scones).

All in all, the day trip to Bath and Stonehenge was a great day out (rain aside), the highlight was just the small pleasure of walking around Bath and seeing the town the Abbey, Roman Baths and the lovely gardens. I would recommend Bath it is a lovely place to see for a day trip out of town.
Now I need to work on where the next stop will be…