A weekend in Bath and Stonehenge

Yesterday at 11 a.m. we decided to go to Bath for a long weekend. We both had the day off, and we'd been wanting to go to Bath since we arrived in London. We just knew it would be the type of place, like Queenstown, that we would just love.

And we were right. We LOVE Bath. It's ridiculous. We loved it as soon as we arrived. It's just so cute and so pretty. All the houses are very gothic looking, and it's like there are mini castles everywhere. It's very expensive to live in Bath, most of the houses are over 1 million pounds! But we would love to live here if we won Lotto.

There are lots of cute little shops, and there are tea shops everywhere. It's a really nice town just to wander around, there's lots of things to see.

We arrived on Friday afternoon about 3.30 p.m. We're staying at the Cheriton House B&B, it's about a 10 minute walk from the centre of Bath. It's so pretty and clean! There's a huge King size bed and a freestanding shower. I find this very exciting, since our bed at home is a double and everyone in London has a shower over the bath. It's a huge 3 story manor, the whole street that it's on is filled with these gothic looking manors, it's all very Jane Austen.

We went on a tour to Stonehenge today, it's about an hour East of Bath. We went on a 3 hour tour, which was long enough. Stonehenge is literally right next to a busy main road. We knew this before we went, but it's very different seeing it in person. A huge historic site, next to a highway. Very odd.

An hour there is by far long enough, the closest you can get to the stones is probably about 5 metres. There's a tiny rope fence surrounding the stones, you could step right over it, but no one does. I find this quite surprising...I wonder what they would do to you if you jumped over it. I guess you'd get a very good photo at least.

Yum, Sally Lunn Buns, they were SO yummy. They look huge, but are super light so you don't feel gross after eating them.

The very lovely park below was locked off to the public, I have no idea why, but no one was allowed inside.

Some of the goodies in the many chocolate stores in Bath. We brought some mini chocolate vampires and reindeer, celebrating both Halloween and Christmas on the same day!