Bath and Stonehenge

We took a daytrip to the quaint city of Bath, birthplace of Jane Austen and those lovely novels of hers, as well as to Stonehenge.


The drive there was long but gave us the chance to enjoy the green English countryside.


Part of the Bath Circus


Jane Austen's house!


The Bath Cathedral


The Roman Baths.
The natural hot springs were well utilised by the Romans, who created a public bathing complex and gymnasium here. Pity we couldn't go for a dip, the water is pure anymore because it's current open-air status encourages micro-organisms to grow in there and make the water toxic.




More of the beautiful city.

Stonehenge- I have always wanted to visit this site, for the plainly ignorant reason of always having found it the pretties Windows default wall paper on the computer. Of course there are more intelligent reasons why one should come here, but my choice was really first and foremost based on this riduculous childhood fantasy over these magical stones in the middle of nowhere.


A UNESCO World heritage site, the Stonehenge dates back to 2500BC, was a burial ground and was used to tell time according to the position of the sun over the rocks. The weight of each rock is so heavy that up till the 197os, no crane technology could lift it. So how did anyone transport these blocks at the time to the middle of nowhere?