Day Trip to Stonehenge and Bath

On Saturday we escaped from the city and ventured into the country side! Twelve of us booked a day trip tour with International Friends to visit Stonehenge and Bath. The bus ride was about 6 hours round trip, so it was a long day but totally worth it!

We were not in London anymore. It was nice to get out of the crowded, busy streets of London.

Stonehenge!

This monument evolved between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. It is aligned with the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset, but its exact purpose is still unknown.

Brita, Me, Afton, Diana, Christine, and Sienna!

It is hard to get the perspective of how big the rocks are but they were huge!

Part of the Roman Baths! In the upper left corner you can see a guy on a balcony...that is part of the Thermae Bath Spa - a contemporary design of the New Royal Bath. It was developed for the Millennium and is Britain's only natural thermal spa. Two weeks from now, 8 girls and I will enjoy a 2 hour spa session here to end our wonderful time in England!

Some gardens in the city of Bath.

Pulteney Bridge, one of only four bridges lined with shops in the world!

Lions on parade in Bath!

A chandelier in one of Bath's famous Assembly Rooms. The chandeliers in the Assembly Rooms are Bath's most expensive possessions...each one is 3 million pounds! Jane Austen lived in Bath for a couple years and mentions the Assembly Rooms in her novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

The Royal Crescent.

Bath Abbey (church on left) and the Roman Baths (building on the right). The Abbey Church is an Anglican parish church that was founded in the 1600s.

The Roman Bath! The baths were originally built in Britain during Roman occupation in about 60 A.D. The spring that fills these baths is the only hot water spring in all of the UK!

In the Pump Room drinking a glass of water from the same warm spring that fills the Roman Baths. In the background, you can see the pump. The Pump Room served as a place for the upper class to drink the water from the spring. They believed that the spring was sacred and could heal the sick since it has so many minerals.

Sally Lunn's (c.1482)

It is the oldest house in bath and is home of the world famous Sally Lunn Bun. We plan on eating here when we come back in two weeks!