I arrived on Thursday the 19th after a long train ride from Oxford. The rain was pouring and of course I got lost, again! But, I eventually found my hostel at the top of town. Hostel livng is new to me and it is something that will take me awhile to get used to. This one was called St Christophers Inn which is right next to a bar and it would be my home for the next 4 nights.
It didn't take me long to make some friends (from all over the world!) and particularly an American guy called Elliot who invited me to go to Stonehenge with him the next day. We got up early and made our way to the Abbey where we got on our bus run by Madmax tours.
The mist was really thick so the one hour trip to Stonehenge there wasn't much to see out of the windows. When we got there we were lucky it was early to beat the crowds! The mist had cleared and it was so amazing, but now I have all of these unanswered questions, I'm sure I'm not the only one though. Why have people been drawn to that place for over 10,000 years?
Part of the tour also included going to the Avebury stones circles (not far from Stonehenge) which were also set up by the same civilization but no one knows why. After we poked around there for awhile we went to the historical town of Lacock (pronounced "lay cock" and several films were filmed there and so was a few scenes from Harry Potter.) we had lunch in this pub that was built in 1361 and it was really quaint. It's funny to think that some of the buildings I am visiting are older than my entire country! After lunch we went to the tiny village of Castle Comb which was voted Britains prettiest village, you can see why, it's gorgeous! That night we met a few more people and went out to dinner.
The next day I decided to go to the Roman Baths which is of course the main attraction of Bath. It was really, really interesting and it took me back to the time I spent in the Greek ruins in Europe. I walked around for several hours then afterwards walked around Bath to explore, which as you know by now is my favourite thing to do 😊
That night was the last night with some of the people I met at the hostel so we decided to go next door to have dinner and drinks. Weekends in hostels are always busy and every bed in our dorm was full. I was really hanging for a good night sleep. On Sunday I was feeling pretty worn out and tired (still have the flu) so I spent the morning taking it easy. I visited a couple of shops but chilled out in the common room for most of the day.
I ended up going for a walk with a couple of people I'd gotten to know and we went up to the Mansions and through the botanical gardens and down to the Avon river. It wasn't a great day for a walk as it hailed and it was freezing but it was beautiful scenery! At 3:30pm we went to the Abbey to listen to the choir sing, that gave me goosebumps!
On Monday it was my last day in Bath and I was due to catch a train at 3:30pm and head down to Dorset. I spent the last few hours just walking around and visiting shops I hadn't yet looked in. There is such a nice feeling in Bath and I really want to return, mostly just to take a dip in the springs because I didn't do that this time!
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