Bath recap...

Well.... we made it to london.

But first i do have to talk about our brief stop over in Bath city for a couple nights.

Bath has some beautiful sights in and around the city and a tour start point for the Stonehenge with a couple of different operators there.

You can find yourself just walking around the small centre area, just seeing the different types of buildings, the Roman baths, spa's, old streets and small park areas to sit and eat, all the different and unique shops and found a neat book / cafe shop with was 3 floors packed with stuff, and a couple different bars around the town with all its different styles.
We even found a indoor market just by walking around the river area, now Im normally not one to really enjoy indoor markets, but we had gone to one which had half price great condition books with many many options to choose from, why does travelling have to suck when you can't buy more things, because you have to carry it all afterwards, oh well.

Outside the market area the main river is near and on a cold winters day, you can see the fog over the hillsides and the river running quietly, its actually a nice sight really, would have been nice to just see the hillsides a little longer. It has the Abbey Chruch which stands at 8 stories high, and is the reason that no other building is more then 8 fllors high,as at the time the building where the market is based, was to be taller then the Abbey but the Chruch didn't want then to outshine them and for everyone to be able to see the Abbey. Good knowledge that.

The place we stayed at was cool, called the Z hotel, reason why its cool? it hosts a wine and cheese hour every day from 5 till 8, glad we have been having wine and cheese for the last several months planning this trip, its like we have been training for that very moment.

Outside the hotel and immediately left of it, is a small exclusive Casino, requires for you be signed up with your ID and a card, and if you're Australian, dont use your drivers license, you'll need your passport to sign up properly to enter, but if you're lucky like us, have a mix up at the desk, because the first two guys say its fine, sign you up, but the super comes down and says no, but still let us in with a VIP pass for the one time only to see the casino, and come out with £60 in pocket from blackjack after only 20 minutes, had 3 blackjacks in a row :o

But the main highlight from bath is yes, the Stonehenge, it really is a wonder just how it was made, how some of the stones came from over 100kms away, and how even today, Noone really know why it was built in the first place, ideas have been thrown around ( no not aliens ) but still no soild reason, the area around the Stonehenge is packed with people, even in winter, and it takes you two hours minimum to see the stones and listen to the audio guide (if you get one), the expo centre, but if you really want to walk the rest of the site which is several miles in total, you will need half a day to really see it all, you can't go through the stones themselves, only about 30 meters, but if you go to Esperance, there is a full scale replica there which you can walk around and with all stones in place, unlike the actual Stonehenge were many years of wear and tear, people stealing the stones from building and graffiti, and well its been there for thousands of years....

But now we are as stated, in London city, probably our LAST place to see in the UK before moving onwards..... to the French. But thats in a weeks time....