Sat June 30 -- Bath

After Stonehenge, we got back on the bus and went to the city of Bath. The plan was to go on a quick 30 minute walk with the tourguide to get our bearings, then split up for lunch. Then, if you wanted to, you could meet up with the guide to go on an optional walking tour of some of the major sights of Bath or just walk around on your own before meeting back with the tour guide to go into the actual Roman Baths. However, since the tour guide was more concerned with speediness than giving a good tour, being nice, or even keeping track of everyone, he lost half of the group part of the way through the getting your bearings walk. We managed to find someone after a little bit who knew when we were supposed to meet at the Baths, but since we didn't know where or when to meet the guide for the optional tour, we couldn't go on that like we wanted to.



















Shannon and I walked around trying to find food for lunch (it was already 2pm by the time we got to Bath and we were quite hungry.) We settled upon a small coffee shop on Pevensy Bridge (a bridge with shops lining it...so cool!) where Shannon got a sandwich and I got a jacket potato with beans and cheese.

After that, we walked down to the river and walked along it until we reached the next bridge where we could come back up to street level. After that, we walked to Bath Abbey and took some pictures of the outside, although we didn't have time to go inside.





















































Then we went to a Ben and Jerry's that was across from the Roman Baths while waiting for the tourguide.

After that, we went through the baths and met back at the bus (only 55 minutes later...grr!) to head back to Sussex Uni.

Sat June 30 -- Stonehenge

We got to Brighthelm bus stop at 8am to leave for the Stonehenge & Bath trip, and there was only 1 bus. Shannon and I got on the 1st bus, and then they realized they were supposed to have 2 buses and that the other wasn't coming. Everyone who was already on the bus got to go on the trip and people who didn't fit had to get refunds. Because of that, we ended up leaving 40 minutes late. The tour guide told us some history of things we were passing on the road, which was fairly interesting. (For example, there is Middlesex, Sussex, Essex and Wessex, but there is no equivalent for the North.)The girls in the seat behind me were very annoying and kept talking loudly so it was hard to hear the guide.

Once we got to Stonehenge we only got 45 minutes, which is not close to enough time. The tour guide kept saying that if we weren't back to the bus on time then he would leave us behind. He almost left 1 girl behind even though we told him she was coming. He was just very annoying overall.

Stonehenge itself was amazing, but it wasn't nearly as fun as the last time I saw it because we were so rushed. Also, other people on the trip were complaining that Stonehenge was boring and "just a bunch of rocks." They are, of course, idiots. You're supposed to take your time and think about how hard it must have been for the people to build it and why it could have been built, not just take pictures next to it...grr.





























We didn't have time to go to the gift shop, so we just got straight back on the bus and headed towards Bath, which I will cover in a separate entry because I have so many pictures of both Stonehenge and Bath.