We woke late and had a wonderful
breakfast bought to our door. It was that big that the lady had to
bring it up on two trays.
We lazed around for a little while before
deciding that we probably should check out and get going. Saying
goodbye to the beautiful castle we were on the road again this time
heading for London town.
On the way we had to pass through Bath.
So we made a detour and stopped in at the Roman Baths.
They were
really interesting and really warm. The main pool in completely
lined with lead and is still 100% watertight today. There are many
other smaller pools including the very hot healing pool. This is
where the English monks bathed the sick or injured to heal them.
There were many Roman coins and
artefacts that had been recovered as the excavation and even a
skeleton that was buried in a lead lined casket. The most
interesting of all were the precious stones. These had carved
symbols or pictures in them and would have been used as personal
seals, maybe set into a ring or a pendent.
Back in the car and we were on our way
to Stonehenge. As the GPS was telling us we were getting closer I
was getting more and more excited. Then over the hill, just to the
side of the road, there it stood...... Beautiful!!
Like all things in the UK we had to pay
to get in, but this was really worth it. We got an audio guide to
the site and then walked through a passageway under the road up to
the stones. As you walked around, they looked totally different
from every angle. There were even a couple of resident crows making
it feel that little more mysterious.
As we were taking a look around,
overhead flew 3 military helicopters. Clay even got some pictures of
them through the stones.
We were almost finished our walk round
when the wind and rain came in. And boy did it come in. We needed
to use the umbrella, but when we put it up the wind turned it inside
out. We couldn't win either way.
Back in the car again we were headed
straight for London. No stopping this time. We were already running
late to return the car when we found some peek hour traffic. Then
the phones went flat so we were navigating from a scratched down set
of directions that I took before the battery finally died. We were
getting more and more frustrated when we realised we had taken an
incorrect exit and had just spent an hour going round in circles. We
eventually found the hotel and got ourselves checked in when Clay
realised that we had also just gotten a flat tyre.
I'm not really
liking London!
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