It's London, baby!!! [Part 3]

As so, we arrive at the final day of our London journey. Having toured the major sites in London and enjoyed ourselves at Singapore Day, we decided to join a tour of Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and the city of Bath. It was up and about at 5.30am Sunday morning to get ready in time for our 7.20am bus. First stop, the home of the Queen herself: Windsor Castle.

The fields of canola we passed along the way.

Think they're grown for their oil.

There were really huge fields of them, all yellow, covering everything.

This is the stretch of shops along the way to the castle...you know, tourist traps.

The outer wall of the castle.

They probably did some work on the walls when they installed windows...haha.

This is actually the exit though you wouldn't know if it weren't for the cops at the gate. Wonder if they knew they would become security guards when they signed up to be policemen.

Again, that is 1 section of Windsor Castle.

It's just too big to be taken in one shot.

And that's the keep. Think the guide said that they've converted it into a library.

This used to be the moat but since there's no more use for it,

they converted it into a pretty nice garden.Looks like something out of those fantasy films, don't it?
Another lovely day to enjoy taking in the sights

No idea what that place is.

It was where we came out after a tour of the tourist section of the castle.

Yeap, that's me.

The shirt with the multi-coloured words were given free during Singapore day. It was one of two choices and I heard people saying that they went and got both. Like seriously.

Ah, the flag flapping at the top of the pole means that the Queen is in.

Makes call screening a tough thing to do if everyone knows you're home.

Making our way back to the coach.
By the time we left Windsor Castle, it was getting close to lunch time. So, we stopped off at an inn called The Bell along the way to Stonehenge. It was a nice little inn with pretty alright pub food.

I always wondered how businesses like these survive. Is it through their pub because I can't picture their rooms being filled most of the time...

After another 40mins or so, we arrived at Stonehenge. This collection of rocks are thought to be over 5000 years ago. The rocks themselves originated from Wales and were thought to have magical powers. Researchers are still unable to explain how the people during that time transported these stones over such a great distance and how they arranged everything.

They believe it had something to do with the sun and perhaps some form of worship. While the common belief was that it was the druids of that time that created Stonehenge, researchers claim that it may have been erected much earlier than that. Who's to know for sure?

Anyway, most of them have toppled from their positions as well as having been the victims of vandals over the years. It's unfortunate because they chipped away at the stones and this has created cracks in the rocks. When it rains, water collects in the cracks and freeze over when the temperature drops at night. This causes more cracks in the rocks and accelerates their destruction. So it's sad to say, that there may not be much left of Stonehenge in a few more decades.

The weather took a slight turn for the worse during our time here but at least it didn't rain too hard.

A rock which was separated from the rest. It kinda looks like a face, no?

And onwards we went from Stonehenge to the city of Bath. It's such a lovely city. Really beautiful but very spread out. It's located in a sort of valley with houses on both sides with alot of narrow winding roads. Would be quite hard to get around without some sort of transportation although it would probably be worth it.

This is Bath cathedral with the old Roman Baths right next door.

They had a lot of strange statues dotting the surroundings around the bath. Most of them were strange mixes of animals and humans in various poses. Never found out why.

We were given about half an hour before meeting back in front of the Roman Baths for our tour so we took a quick walk around Bath's city centre (I think). Stumbled across a small stall selling crepes. Heard good stuff about crepes from Damus so decided to get a Nutella one. Man, if I found it hard eating the chocolate waffle previously, this was freaking mission impossible. It was so messy to eat but still so good..haha. Had to really clean up after it though. Not something you should eat when walking about and in public...haha.

This is a river cutting throught the city, me thinks.

You can never find something like this in Singapore which is kinda sad.

I remember sitting at West Coast enjoying the breeze but the view of container ships, cranes and bright lights just spoilt everything.

A small park right in the middle of town

The city of Bath was named that because the romans built a town around the hot springs found in the area. This was similar to the baths they had back in Italy. However, it has now closed down and serves as a museum.

A roman to give the tour, in costume at least.

Looks good, doesn't it? Although it is all open-air...

must have been really warm to prevent people from getting chilly in this weather.

I really like the architecture from long ago.

Really tall ceilings although probably not the most cosy.

The water is all green because of the moss that has grown due to lack of maintenance.

Sunlight + damp settings = algae.

After that, we were dropped off somewhat near our hotel. Took us about 10mins to walk back and it was time to get something to eat before getting on the bus ride of hell back to Glasgow. Suffice to say, things did not go as planned on the trip back. Just when I thought I was comfortable and possibly able to survive the trip back, disaster struck. Enough said. I'm just glad it's over. That concludes my weekend down in London. Just want to say a big thank you to Angel and Damus who settled everything for our trip down to London. Everything was great although I think I'll insist we take the train next time :D Hope everyone's doing well, both back home and elsewhere. For those with exams, good luck and I'll see the rest of ya when I'm back.

CAN'T WAIT!!!