Bath & Stonehenge

Hi..finally I have time to set up this post,  it was three weeks ago when  my friends and I went to Stonehenge and Bath.  It took about three hours from Nottingham to Bath thus we pulled out at about 7am. That day was light shower and cold. To get there we passed by many cities like Birmingham and Bristol.

I was having my breakfast served with hot honey tea. Thanks to ChinHong for the quick snap without me knowing it, good job!

Then we reached at one of seven wonders. It made up of many rocks and the ancient people used it as their public clock by watching at the direction of shadow fell. There are actually many different explanations for the purpose of Stonehenge, some said it was a religion and burial place. There was a stone named slaughter stone which was bloody staining red and the colour still visible up till now.

There is no free lunch in the world, so as the entry to see ROCKs. Well, it was quite pricey, with the entry permission we were given a introductory speaker which looked like walkie talkie and we were just need to select the station number in order to listen to the history behind that particular monumen.

This was the Stonehenge!

 

It was really cold. Yingying ah, why do you ly on me...Haha!!From the left: Khei Sheen, Peyli, Jasmine, Yingying

It wasn't very fun for outing during bad weather. It was raining and strong wind blowing, plus there wasn't any shade around the field so we were like 'receiving' the full wind (but it's a kind of good experience). I think that the best time of visit is during summer or spring to see the effect of sunlight and the stones.

The Heel Stone. Does it look like heel? Well, there was a tale telling that these stone was actually one of a bundle of stones that were stolen by the devil from a house, when the devil flew home across the sky and he accidentally dropped it here. How far do you believe it?

Imaginery resembling a face

永春拳: Hekkkkkkk!

1 minute BEFORE

1 minute AFTER

Me and Kheisheen. Oh no, the big bag guy, you are contaminating the pic~

Haha! What were they doing? You should not be surprised by it, because you will see everybody on the field with one hand up holding the speaker phone just like chong zen and ying ying. Haha! I think this invention arise from no workers could stand the deteriorating wind. 

Acting cute. I like the background.

Ey~~~ ChinHong, you also like to act cute ar? Hahaha! Cute pun~

Housemates..

12o'cock (clockwise): ChongNgei,KheiSheen,YingYing, ChongZen,ChinHong,Peyli,Jasmine,Julie

From the left: Khei Sheen, YingYing, Peyli, Jasmine

The only way that I can capture the whole picture of Stonehenge with me next to it.

We are Hakka from Malaysia! Haha..Next to me was Yeok Kim. We left Stonehenge and heading towards.......You guess? See what the half-naked guy below going to do? ...Yeah, You're right! he was going to BATHe!!! and yeah, we are going to BATH!

We were asking for direction to reach  our first  visiting point.

In front of the Roman Bath.

Queueing up to get the entrance ticket..9 pounds each..quite  expensive though.  

The hot spring water powered the water supply inside the 'Bathrooms' of the Roman Bath. Everybody was longing to come and bathe in the hot spring because they were all very curious and could not explain why there was hot water coming out from the land. The basic idea of the tourist spot was to introduce to people how the Roman people so particular about bathing, they could bathe several times a day. There was a section of 'mix-gender' pool allowed the males and the females to interact while bathing but this culture was finally banned by the King as it caused some social problems. Haha! The wealth and status of a female could be determined by how many bath-helper she had, normally there would be at least three to four helping them massage and bathe. While for the male, it was a culture that the males have to hug each other before they entered in to the bathing pool.  

This was the hot spring since hundreds of years ago. Can you see the layer of steam above the water surface? 

 

Whose fingers??

Inside there, we were all having the same gesture just like when we were in the Stonehenge..lol

This was how hair fashion of the Roman people look like. The head size was double the size of the actual. 

Only partial of the wall bricks remained, and the archeologists arrange it by their imagination.

This were the 'diamonds' found on the sandy floor along the way to the Roman bath hundreds of years ago, it was so dedicate, names and signatures were crafted on the little diamonds, people believed that they were either the diamonds on the rings or something that had economic value at that time.

This was a wishing pool..The shinny bits were the coins of wishes..

With the Victorians

Remember to claim a treated "Bath" water after visiting, it costs 50p for each glass of that awful water, strong metallic and rusty smelling water..But it is worth trying

Cheers!! 

Pulteney Weir

The Pulteney Bridge and Pulteney Weir, was designed by Robert Adam completed in 1733. It is one of the four bridges in the world with shops across the full span on both sides andoverlooks the impressive Pulteney Weir.

Chin Hong was playing Paparazzi game. Haha! His target was the yellow short lady..

Oops,he had been detected by the target.. Actually it had a very funny ending, but the picture of the ending was not good to publish here, so the story stopped here=X

By the riverside walk

Nightview of the riverwalk

Burger King!

Remember to visit Sally Lunn's 1680 Refreshment House, and grab one or two buns or fine English tea back home. I regretted for buying too little, really.

This must be Sally Lunn...

Bath Abbey, the last Gothic church in England, started in 1499 and built on the ruins of the formaer orman cathedral, it is located just next to the Roman Bath.

Bath was famous for Ice cream too...Remember to try!

We were all wetted by the rain....

Our dinner, claimed to be the award winning cornis pasties, but it did taste award winning at all.. I only finished it the next day=P