Two weekends ago I travled to Bath, England! It took about 5-6 hours by train, but it was worth it. Bath it small, but very pretty. There's a lot to do there I think also. We got to our hostel around 9pm Friday night, and just stayed in for the night since we were on the train all day and it was rainy. We met a nice girl from Germany who was one of the others to share the room with us. We woke up early the next day to make it to the Roman Baths by opening. It was a rainy morning, but we were prepared with our umbrellas and rain shoes! We weren't too worried since most of the baths were indoor or under some type of cover, but we were worried about our plans for later in the day - Stonehenge! The Roman Baths were really awesome; I enjoyed walking around and learning about the Romans and why they decided to come to Bath and stay there and build their community. Bath has the only natural hot spring in Britain, making it the perfect place for the Romans to build their public baths. It was important for the Romans to be clean (i would hope so) and so most Romans spent a portion of their day at the baths. I remember some of the terms and information from Latin class in high school and for a moment I thought it wasn't a waste of my time to take 4 years of it...but then I remembered it actually was haha. We learned about the baths I believe freshman year of high school...so long ago. Anyway, at one point there was a circular bath where Romans would jump in and cool off from the hot water from the main bath, and Jenn and I tossed in American coins and made a wish :) The Roman Baths in my opinion were definitely worth a visit.
Next we grabbed lunch at Pret, and walked around a bit until it was time to go on our tour to Stonehenge! We took MadMax Tours, and the guide was nice, funny and had some good information to share. We made it out to Stonehenge and had about an hour there. Stonehenge may just be a bunch of rocks in a field and there are larger and more important rock formations elsewhere, but it was SO COOL. Stonehenge looks kind of small at first, but you are able to walk all around it and see it from different directions. It was surreal to actually be there looking at Stonehenge and taking pictures of it. It was extremely windy...but no rain!! It cleared up and it was actually really nice out for our visit to Stonehenge, which added to our great moods. After Stonehenge our tour guide took us to a small village called Lacock. When I say small, I mean really small, like 2 streets. A bunch of movies were filmed there...including one of my personal favorites, Harry Potter! It was cute, and we only spent a half hour there...which might have actually been too long considering the size haha.
In the evening, there wasn't too much to do, but we luckily discovered a comedy walk called Bizarre Bath. It was two hour long walking tour...but all a comedy show pretty much. The guide took us around Bath and performed stunts, cracked jokes and made a fool of himself and others he made fun of. If I tried to explain some of the jokes/stunts to you, you just would think it was really weird and not too funny...but it was really funny at the time and in person.
Sunday was one of my favorite days. We checked out of the hostel and carried all our stuff with us, and then made our way up to the Jane Austen Centre!! I was so excited...Jane Austen lived in Bath for five years, and two of her novels take place in Bath. The centre is really cute. We had a informative talk that lasted about 15 mins, and then were able to walk around the exhibition. It was tiny, but nice. We spent some time in the gift shop of course, where I purchased a book, a notepad, and a small tote bag that says "I (heart) MR DARCY" haha.
Then was probably the best part....we had tea and scones in the Jane Austen Regency Tea Room!! So delicious :-) traditional, and the perfect ending to our weekend in Bath.
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