Friday, July 20, 2007

London trip - Day 4

Due to timing constrant we reshuffle some schedule, and push ahead the visit to roman bath and stonehedge to this day. Woke up early for the trip to both stonehedge at salisbury and bath will be a long one.
Had a quick bite at about 9am before leaving the house. thankfully roshane , plotted out the direction to stonehedge for our first stop which is about an hour away from London. We also have to thanks to the car inbuilt GPS to navigate the roads.
The stonehedge is at the junction of 2 inter crossing road, well you can chose to pay a price to enter the ground or stand behind the fence to admire it. But we chose to enter the ground, unfortunately you can't touch the stones . They have cordon the area , fortunately i have my zoom lens to take pictures upclose.
Next stop is to bath west of stonehedge. On the way we got ourself some strawberry along the roadside which is freshly plucked. My uncle joke saying that depends on what car you drive they will sell you at different price ( unfortunately for us we drove a merc). Almost drove to the wrong direction thankfully we realised it and did a hasty turn around.

It tooks us longer time then expected to reach bath, After parking the car at corn street. We headed to mcdonalds for a quick meal. Seems like something is wrong with the airconditioner there. Hastily we made our way to the main attraction , which is the roman baths.
The roman baths is built by the romans during the roman occupation of britain. Anyway you can see how the romans enjoy hot spa in the pass. unfortunately the bath is no longer safe to use due to the use of lead pipe to pipe in the water into the pool. Lots of archaeological finds from and around the bath are displayed in the museum.

All visitor can get to try the spring water from the restuarant but we kinda missed out on that. my uncle decide to get some "evidence" of this trip back to my aunt i believe it was some teacup from the shop next to the bath house.
Along the way i got arrested by the city roman guard but thankfully i got release for good behavior.
Next stop is the pulteney bridge which really is a shopping mall bridge with shops on both side of the bridge.

On reaching the carpark, we notice a note clipped on to the wiper and it wrote "Did you dropped a camera ? please call me XXXXXXXX" . Only at that moment i realised my pocket camera is missing! We called the person immediately unfortunately when we got hold of her we had already hit the highway. So she is kind enough to send us the camera via mail, thats mighty nice of her.

And thats conclude our day 4 of the trip.

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