Stonehenge and Bath

 Thursday 18^th May

 

We were up early today as we had two sites to visit. Even so, we left around 9am. My dad wasn’t in the best mood; the bath had leaked old bath water downstairs directly onto the dinning room table … which is where my dad had left his giant chocolate bars. Sadly, both ended up in the bin.

 

Our first destination was a place called ‘Stonehenge’. This is apparently one of the UK’s ‘must see’ attractions however, to me, it just looked like a circle of stones erected with little concern for health and safety … you couldn’t even play inside the stones! I was pushed around the circumference of Stonehenge while chatting to my family. Uncle had found a bench and decided to stay and wait there; he could still see the stones. Dad downloaded an app which provided commentary about the stone circle in Japanese. It seemed to make sense to my Japanese family but I had no idea.

 

We left around midday and towards Bath. My dad’s plan was to find a ‘park and ride’ however, he ended up parking in the city centre. Bath is stunning! It was my mum’s first visit but dad had been before. As Bath is very hilly, mum decided to take grandad, grandma and uncle on a ‘hop on hop off’ bus tour (which they didn’t hop on or off). My dad and I walked around the city on foot and saw almost as much as the bus, within a similar amount of time. Bath is not very big therefore, we managed to stop off so dad could get a magazine and some fudge to replace his chocolate.

 

Just before 2pm my dad and I waited at the ‘hop on hop off’ bus stop for my family. Once off we went into a very posh room called ‘The pump room’. Located within the Roman Baths, the Pump room had been converted to an afternoon tea room. The celling was very high with lovely chandeliers hanging down. I had seen other guests getting a tower of three plates consisting of sandwiches, scones and cakes. I was looking forward to mine however, a cheese pizza was placed in front on me. I wasn’t going to win the argument therefore, I just ate the pizza while my family tucked into delicious sandwiches, scones with cream and jam and cakes. A pianist and a group of string players provided live music as we ate. It was all very posh. My uncle, who wasn’t sure what to do, just dived into the scones first however, didn’t apply cream or jam … much to mine, and my dad’s, puzzled expression.

 

Once this was over, most of the crew were pretty tired. We headed back to the car but not before calling at a bank. My uncle had been after a bank since he landed in the UK and kept mentioning it. We therefore took him to one and he seemed happy after however, my dad was worried with the amount of cash he had on him.

 

The drive back to the lodge took and hour and most of us fell asleep. Once back, we finished off some BBQ leftovers from last night. Mum, dad and I retired to bed pretty early whereas, my grandparents stayed up to watch Japanese TV. I couldn’t understand this as they said that they were pretty tired.

 

Toodle Pip!