Feeling very English near Roman Baths

Well we fell in love with Bath! As soon as we arrived and walked towards our very English hotel we both felt we'd arrived in real England, as opposed to fake England in London. It was so beautiful and we had a great time relaxing, drinking lots of tea and eating lots of biscuits!

We arrived fairly late in the afternoon of our first night so we spent the arvo doing our much needed laundry and the usual internet email check. We picked up our car the next day and headed straight for Avebury, which we'd read was like Stonehenge but not as busy and much bigger. We stopped off for photos and more tea and it was well worth it. You could actually walk near to and touch the stones, which you can't do at Stonehenge but pay for the privilege of it. We did decide to drive past Stonehenge though, how could we not, on our way to Glastonbury. The drive was a bit of a hike and we managed to find a 'local detour' where we were the only car amongst tractors, bit scary on a winding road! We stopped in Glastonbury for 'world famous pasties' and a look at their Abbey and Tor - all very English, especially as it was freezing and a bit gloomy. But nice scenery anyway. We finished our trip driving through another wee town called Wells and headed into Bath straight for rush-hour traffic. A nice 8-hour or so day of driving.

On our last day we spent the morning touring the Roman Baths which was really quite interesting, I wasn't expecting too much, but I was nicely surprised! We took loads of photos (which doesn't help now, but we'll upload them soon) which are much better than me trying to describe them. It was quite impressive that the baths still remain after so long!

We then hopped in our little Astra and headed for Blackpool to sample as much rock as we could in 48 hours!