We went off to Bath the on 28th May (yes, I know it was a few weeks ago) from London after a good nights sleep in the orange cupboard (aka easyhotel). The weather wasn’t the best we would have to admit when leaving London and the really funny thing was that the Tube @ Victoria Station was flooded. Thankfully it was a public holiday and that we didn’t have to fight with commuters on their way to work. How, in a country renowned for its rain, does a place that is critical to transport links in London get flooded? Yes if it was massive down poor in a short period of time I could understand it but hey it was just light drizzle.
Not to worry, we got another tube train to a station a few stops along and then got one from there to … damn I can’t remember now … Oh well. Anyway we got there and then found the bus that we had to get on for the trip after I made a quick dash to the local cafe to get some breakfast for Estee and I as easyhotel don’t do breakfast.
On the way down, our guide gave us her views about Stonehenge and how it was created and this that and the other. God she could prattle on. And her voice wasn’t one that you could enjoy either! But that is not something that I should probable comment on too much as mine isn’t that much better most likely.
Stonehenge is one of those places that you have this image in your mind as to how it is and how it will feel as far as the atmosphere goes. Now it could have been the light rain, the strong biting wind, but for me it wasn’t that great a place. this could also be because you aren’t allowed to get neat the stones themselves. It is all roped off. But that aside, it is still impressive to move these stones to this location from hundreds of miles away – apparently – and then place them in the formation that they are in with none of the machinery that we have available to us today and with such accuracy.
After an hour here at Stonehenge we made our way to Bath .. No .. Not to the bath. The place called Bath. This is where it was discovered that the Romans had made a bath house. This was only discovered when an architect started to create his dream for a Roman bath style place at Bath. Unbeknown to him at the time – so it is said – that Bath had been used for that purpose previously.
The Bathhouse itself was an interesting place to visit. The strange things is that as you enter the place, they suggest that you do not touch the water as it is not treated. So this raises the questions about the health of the Romans when they were about the place. Did they treat the water before bathing in it? And then of course, you see some people touching the water and worse still putting the hand of their baby into the water. Apparently in the 1980’s a child caught maningacockle after visiting Bath. It was not proven but it was suspected.
After walking around Bath, we made our way back up to London. But we took the tourist route. Now back home, that could imply that you got lost, but no we didn’t. It just means that we took the tourist route along some roads that were … well … a little narrow for bus in my opinion and in some ways a little hard for the bus .. ie steep hills and the like. But then again … we did worse in Turkey so maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.
As we approached London, the traffic started to build and the rain started to fall … appears we missed most of it on our trip ….
