Rememberance Day 2006

On Rememberance Day, I went on a day trip to Stonhenge and Bath [pronounced BAAAAAAAAAAAth]. It was organised by BUNAC [The British eqivalent to SWAP]. I went with a few friends that I met through BUNAC. At 11am at Stonehenge, everyone observed 2 minutes of silence. It was pretty cool being at this ancient landmark and only listening to the wind.



Erin, Marissa, Tom and I at the rocks.



Afterwards, we bused to Bath. Bath is just a really, really, really, ridiculously pretty city. The city is founded around the only naturally-occurring hot springs in the United Kingdom. It was first documented as a Roman spa, although tradition suggests that it was founded earlier. It's very compact, walkable and situated on the River Avon.



Outside the baths. This eighteenth-century structure was sort of a museum to the orignal baths. There were relics, sculptures, reconstructions, original construction, infrastructure and of course, the hot springs themselves.



Inside the baths.



Chris, Marissa and Erin drinking the water. It actually tasted terrible but it was free from the Pump House Restaurant with our admission tickets into the baths.



We spent so much time in the baths we had little time to do anything else. We walked across the Palladian-style Pulteney bridge and along the river.

We all really wanted to go out when we got back to London [it was a Saturday night, after all]. But after returning to our respective flats, we all just crashed from playing tourist all day.