Sunday, May 19, 2013

Day 7: Stonehenge and the Roman Bath

Today was a day filled with travel. We left the at 8 and headed to see Stonehenge. We got their around 930. Dana and I did not plan to go in and do the tour, but it only cost 8 pounds so we did it. It was about what I expected. Last year we did a lot of discussion on Stonehenge in my Art Appreciation  and Intro to Humanities classes so I knew a lot about the area. They have different theories of how it was created but I still think it was aliens ha ha. 




After that we went to Bath which is named after the Roman baths. It was a nice city with tons architecture from the Roman Empire. We entered into the Baths later in the afternoon, and it was really cool. They just happened to find the baths under the floor, and have done a nice job presenting them to the public. They kind of look like giant swimming pools. The difference is that these baths come from water that us heated way below the earths surface and rise to the surface; kind of like hot springs. One if the most interesting things is that you are still able to see the ruins from the old roman village. There is not much left but the objects they found are quite astounding. The only sad part about today was we only had an hour to go through the baths, I could have spent another hour our two in there listening to the audio tour. 






We got back in time for dinner and bed. Tomorrow we go to Old Bailey Crown Court. 

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