Stone Henge and Bath

After I bought the Cotswold tour from Groupon, I browsed other tour offered and found Stone Henge and Bath. Two birds one stone. This is a perfect day trip when Julie came to visit. I always want to know what so exciting about giant Menhir sitting in the middle of no where. I grew up reading European comics (the text was in Indonesian). Obelix and Asterix were my favorite. It's a French comic. Here's a picture of Obelix.

I pictured him building Stone Henge. Anyway, we met with the tour group at Victoria Coach Station. This is deja vu. I was just here a week prior. The start was always chaos as usual because there were some other tours leaving at the same time. This time we had a double decker bus. Lots of people in this tour. I hope we didn't have to wait around for people and everybody was on time. I took a half dose of Dramine to avoid any motion sickness. I dozed off right after we got out of London. I think the journey to Bath was around one hour or so.

From the highway or motorway, they call it here, we saw little mounts in the middle of the fields. Pretty soon we saw Stone Henge from a distance. It looked sunny and warm outside, but when we stepped off the bus, it was chilly. The wind was so strong. The sunshine really fooled me.

The wind really messed up any good hair. We were back in the bus 15 minutes before the scheduled time. Since I moved to Atlanta, I really couldn't stand cold. It was hard to think that I lived in Iowa for 11 years. Everybody got back to the bus on time. Off we went to Bath. Everybody that I talked to in the office said Bath was quite nice. Yes, indeed. This is the cutest town in England that I had to so far. Bath was super busy, lots of tourists in town. Partly because it was a weekend and also, it's almost Christmas, so they had a Christmas market. It was so packed. The coach took a while to get to the parking lot that was a little bit outside of the town center. In the mean time, I texted Lauren since she was just there a few weeks ago with her parents, where to eat lunch. She said Sally's buns. I googled it and we walked to the cafe. We weren't too surprised to see a long line outside of the restaurant. We decided it wasn't worth it to queue. There were some food stalls in the market. I had a burger with sauteed onion with ketchup and mustard. It was the best burger that I've had in a long time. I think it was just the combination of cold, hunger and good mustard. It was that good. 

 We ate our food while standing on the side of the street. The streets were so packed with people. The next destination is the Roman Bath House museum (above picture). I didn't know what to expect. It was actually a really good museum. Romans were so smart. They used the natural hot spring to build a spa.

 The water was still hot. It's a museum, you're not allowed to soak in the warm water in the middle of the chilly winter.

 A not very successful selfie.

 I love the reflection of the building.

 This is the river in the middle of the town. Cold water, not hot spring water.

 We went to the Crescent. It was just so beautiful. Honey colored classical facades are the trade mark of many England architecture.

We got back to London around 7PM. It was a long day but so worth it. The next day we went to Tower of London, a quick lunch at Borough market (the market wasn't open on Sunday, but there was a paella stall that opened)

 We ended the day with an afternoon tea. I ate way too much food.