Well after a long long night and very little sleep we said goodbye to my housemate in London and set off for the countryside. It was great to finally get out of the city. The fact that it was raining very heavily didn't dampen our spirits ha ha ha. We had a quick pit stop and a bacon sarnie on the road heading towards Stonehenge.
On the way we bagged the girls about their antics from the night before and sang our way through the 4 or so Cd's that we had in the car.
When we got to Stonehenge we decided that the 6 pounds each it was going to cost us to get in wasn't worth it so we and many others who are just as tight, parked the car up the road (hoping it didn't get bogged) and legged it down the road to look at Stonehenge through the fence. Not that big a deal when you have been to the circles at Orkney but still it was a bit of a moment for all of us. Except Fiona who was wearing her thongs and decided it was best to stay in the car.
From Stonehenge we travelled towards Woodhenge (again viewed from the car) and up towards Avebury. Having heard about Avebury from Georgi we weren't disappointed. We could walk around and touch these stones. Despite the rain. It is an amazing area filled with unexplainable things like a huge man made hill that sits quite close to Avebury or the stone and wooden circles themselves.
Because of the rain we decided to call it a day and headed towards Bath our stop for the night. Bath was a city I was expecting to be cool and it was. It is small though and very tourist friendly. thankfully the rain kept some of the more obnoxious tourist types away and after finding the hostel and our rooms we went to explore bath. unfortunately it was too late for us to go into the Roman Baths but we did look around the city and the Bath Abbey which even had an Australian Memorial (to captain cook I think).
We found ourselves a local pub for some food and after a short fight about the last two roast chicken dinners we decided to check out the crazy locals according to the bar lady the insanely drunk group of youngen's all of which had bizarrely cut off jeans had just finished their exams. They finally got kicked out but we quite enjoyed watching their drunken debacles. Excellent though the pub was, it closed early due to it being Sunday and we headed back to the hostel where we met our roommates for the night two American girls travelling around England. We stayed up for hours mucking around it felt very much like a giggly girls room on school camp.
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