On Saturday, July 5, I went on a school day-trip to Stonehenge & Bath.
When I travel, I'm more interested in seeing how locals live--where they shop, what they eat, what they do for fun--rather than going to the tourist attractions. So I wasn't really expecting much from this trip because I knew it would be a sightseeing tour.
But everything we saw was beautiful and I actually enjoyed this day more than I expected.
We met at 7AM and boarded the coaches. Basically everyone knocked out for the two-hour ride except me...
After arriving at Stonehenge, we had an hour to walk around and take pictures.
I look happy here but in reality I'm freezing my butt off.
...just kidding, I was happy!
After that, we boarded the coaches again and made our way to Bath.
Bath is this really cute, lively city with small shops, cafes, and restaurants. There are also some street vendors and performers in the shopping plazas.
Everything just looked really nice and pretty. I'm pretty sure people who live here are rich.
When we got there, we had two hours to ourselves to walk around and grab lunch.
We ate at a sandwich chain called Pret a Manger.
They sell packaged, freshly-made sandwiches. All the sandwiches are on a shelf right when you walk in so you pick whatever you want and pay for your items at the cashier.
I got this mango chicken sandwich with almonds and arugula. It was good.
We sat near the Roman baths to eat our lunches. They were having this showcase of different dance teams from local schools. It was really cute.
This was too adorable.
These kids performed Dancing in the Rain... SO cute! The little boys looked so bored but the girls were really into it.
Afterwards, they had junior high and high school dance teams come up to perform. So let me just say that white people REALLY can't dance (unless you are Justin Timberlake). They were pretty bad. The last act was this girl who looked like she was 12. She wore this metallic leotard and did a solo piece to a Spice Girls song... I wonder what her parents thought of that. It wasn't inappropriate or anything, just really bad and embarrassing.
Then we walked around!
Here is the Jane Austen Centre. For those of you who didn't know, Jane Austen wrote a book about me. Haven't you ever read Emma?
I wish... I do like her writings though.
At 2PM, everyone met in front of the Roman Baths.
Here is the ceiling of the building leading into the baths.
We walked through the entire thing and saw a bunch of monuments that just looked like differently-shaped rocks to me. Nonetheless I took pictures of it.
The water was green... questionable...
We left Bath at around 4:30PM... it was a three hour ride back home! Luckily, I fell asleep for two hours of it.
It was a good day. The end!
After arriving at Stonehenge, we had an hour to walk around and take pictures.
I look happy here but in reality I'm freezing my butt off....just kidding, I was happy!
After that, we boarded the coaches again and made our way to Bath.
Bath is this really cute, lively city with small shops, cafes, and restaurants. There are also some street vendors and performers in the shopping plazas.
Everything just looked really nice and pretty. I'm pretty sure people who live here are rich.When we got there, we had two hours to ourselves to walk around and grab lunch.
We ate at a sandwich chain called Pret a Manger.
They sell packaged, freshly-made sandwiches. All the sandwiches are on a shelf right when you walk in so you pick whatever you want and pay for your items at the cashier.
I got this mango chicken sandwich with almonds and arugula. It was good.We sat near the Roman baths to eat our lunches. They were having this showcase of different dance teams from local schools. It was really cute.
This was too adorable.
These kids performed Dancing in the Rain... SO cute! The little boys looked so bored but the girls were really into it.Afterwards, they had junior high and high school dance teams come up to perform. So let me just say that white people REALLY can't dance (unless you are Justin Timberlake). They were pretty bad. The last act was this girl who looked like she was 12. She wore this metallic leotard and did a solo piece to a Spice Girls song... I wonder what her parents thought of that. It wasn't inappropriate or anything, just really bad and embarrassing.
Then we walked around!
Here is the Jane Austen Centre. For those of you who didn't know, Jane Austen wrote a book about me. Haven't you ever read Emma?I wish... I do like her writings though.
At 2PM, everyone met in front of the Roman Baths.
Here is the ceiling of the building leading into the baths.
We walked through the entire thing and saw a bunch of monuments that just looked like differently-shaped rocks to me. Nonetheless I took pictures of it.
The water was green... questionable...We left Bath at around 4:30PM... it was a three hour ride back home! Luckily, I fell asleep for two hours of it.
It was a good day. The end!
