We had a pre-booked tour of Stonehenge today, so we got up and went on the tube to Victoria, where we had a coffee in a little cafe, while we tried to figure out where to go! After asking information, we headed out and down the street to the Golden Tours Information Centre. We lined up with a bunch of oldies, and got on a big bus. The first leg of the tour was from London to Bath, which is about a 2 or so hour trip. The driver was terrible! After only about 15 minutes of the journey, I was already feeling bus-sick! All I wanted to do was look out at the English Countryside, but I don't know if that was better or worse for my motion sickness! I feel like its not too dissimilar to scenery back home, but the paddocks are a LOT greener! (Even the hay bales were green!) And there were quite a few canola fields. It wasn't really what I was expecting. I thought it would be much more built up a lot further out from London, but it turned into paddocks pretty early on. As we were arriving into Bath, all the houses were these giant Georgian mansions, and they were so beautiful! Add that to the beautiful bridges and canals running through the place, it made it quite a scenic trip! When we pulled up, the tour guide took us to the Roman Baths and Museum, where we started our tour. We were given an hour and a half to do whatever we wanted, so we went into the museum. They gave us audio guides so we knew what we were looking at. It looked kinda funny though, everyone in the building looked like they were on their phones. As we walked through the entrance we came out onto a terrace overlooking the original Roman baths! The baths were made from natural hot springs that came up through a crack in the earths crust, and the Romans built it into a bath. Pity they used lead pipes, so most of them got poisoning and died... (Although they thought it was a curse from the gods!) Around the terrace were about 9 statues of different roman emperors and people of importance, such as Julius Caesar and Hadrian. It was very pretty except for the green water. Apparently it's so dirty that if you touched it you'd most likely get an infection in a heartbeat! It was a pretty kind of green though! After that we walked around the museum, which had a lot of relics that had been found in and around the baths over the years, and lots of information. We used our audio guides to learn about it all, then realized we only had half an hour til we were supposed to be at the bus, and we weren't even halfway through the museum! So we rushed through the rest, came out beside the bath and had a look around there, and around the cold plunge pool (which has turned into a kind of wishing well for people to donate to the museum). At the end, they had water that was freshly filtered from the baths, that you could drink, so we had some of that. If was still warm, and tasted so pure! Yum! We left the museum and hurried back to the bus. I was pretty annoyed that we didn't get enough time to look around the town, as it was such a pretty place! Will definitely have to come back! We filed back onto the bus, and set off for our next stop, in a village called Lacock, which is where a lot of shows have been filmed, including Harry Potter and Pride and Prejudice. (Pretty sure it's Hogsmeade?!) Two minutes into the trip there and I was feeling bus sick again already. Worst. Driver. Ever. While we were in Lacock (for only one hour!) we were making lots of la-jokes, where pretty much every la-word we said would start with 'la'. We thought it was funny. We sat on the grass and had a picnic of salad (and salami) rolls, then Darren and Lyle went to see if they could buy some more rolls somewhere while I lay in the sun. They came back with a beer each and some crackers. After we finished eating and drinking we went to have a quick look around the town. The village is a heritage site, so all the buildings are really old and pretty. Kinda ruining the atmosphere a little though, was the scaffolding from upkeep works, and the modern cars lining the streets! After again, not enough time in the village, we got back on the bus to go to the next stop, which was a pub in a town called Amesbury, where there was an optional dinner. Because we'd packed our own lunch, we didn't book dinner there though (Plus £11 - ~$20 - for a meal was a little out of our price range!). The pub is where the Beatles used to stay when they played festivals out that way. As soon as the bus started on the way there I felt sick already. Although this time I couldn't hold it in and was sick on the bus.... :S So freaking embarrassing... So when we got to Amesbury and everyone went in the pub, we just went for a walk to get some fresh air, and some chewy! Anyway. The next bus trip was only a short one, so I didn't feel too bad on that leg (although the driving was still terrible). We arrived at Stonehenge, which we could see from the bus. There were two stones in the carpark, that you were allowed to touch, and they get so warm! The stones hold a lot of heat from the sun, and it had been a perfect day. There were also large white markers on the ground in the carpark, which is apparently where there used to be stones as well, which I thought was quite strange that they had been taken out. (Big yellow taxi, anyone?) Apparently in the next year, they will be ripping up all the carparks and paths, and restoring the site to how it originally was, so no tourists will even be able to visit Stonehenge anymore! The guide thinks that won't last, but who knows? Pretty awesome that we got there before that happened! We were given audio guides and went for a walk around the path that rings the stones. The guide was pretty boring, more about how the stones are held together, and structural stuff, whereas I was more interested in hearing about legends and folklore. After we walked around it, we went back to the entrance, where we had to wait for security to do their checks, then we were let back in, in two groups of 20ish people, to actually go inside the stones and experience them from the inside! Normally no one is allowed in there, but they do it as part of this tour! We still weren't allowed to touch the stones, although I did get a sneaky touch in! (I'm sure everyone did!) Darren found a piece of bluestone that he sneakily pocketed and we got a million photos! It was so amazing being inside the stones, I can't really describe it! They are absolutely massive, and the sun was setting through them! We got maybe half an hour inside the circle, then we headed back to the bus. As the tour had run a fair bit later than it usually does, the drivers shift was finished, so he pulled over not far away and swapped with some other guy. The ride was soooo much smoother after that, it was such a relief! On the way back to London we were talking to a couple of people who were not only from Australia, not only from Victoria, not only from Geelong, not only from Grovedale, but lived 5 MINUTES AWAY from us! Such a spin out! We got back to London, and got the tube back to Camden. (Have I mentioned I LOVE the tube?!) Once we got back to Camden we went and got dinner at an Indian restaurant called (I think!) Mataraji Camden. It was so tasty! Heaps of dishes I've never tried or even heard of before, it was great! After dinner we headed back to the hostel and went to bed.