London Week 9 - Stones and Baths

This week we decided to take in another show. This time it was a well worn classic, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. You could certainly tell that Joseph was a lot more simple than Wicked. Where Wicked had lots of solo numbers and special effects, Joseph was all about the big group singing and dancing numbers. It was a bit more basic around the effects and things but we still had an enjoyable night.

On the weekend we were off again to visit another place. This time we decided not to do it ourselves, but instead jump on one of the many bus tours to Stonehenge and Bath. The bus tour certainly has its advantages. We had a tour guide who was a well of information and always keen to share it with us throughout the bus trip. We learnt about breweries, painters, architects, the army...you name it he knew it. Unfortunately he had plenty of time to tell us because we spent so much time on the bus, either travelling in the slow moving bank holiday traffic or waiting for the other patrons to get back on the bus (late.) So it took us four hours from leaving London to get to Stonehenge when it should have only been half that time. However, once we finally got there Stonehenge was very cool. We had an audiotour again that took us around the stones and explained all about them. We had heard that there weren't that many of the stones left, but we were sufficiently impressed. There were enough there that we could easily picture what it used to be like.

Then it was on the bus again and off to Bath. Unfortunately it was after 2pm before we even arrive there and with us leaving at 5:30 it was going to be a quick look around. Bath is a beautiful city. Lovely old Victorian Buildings, situated on the river Avon and lots of green parks. Part of the bus trip was a tour around the Roman Baths. It is a combination of ancient roman baths which were rediscovered and converted to Victorian Baths in the 1800s. No taking a dip though. The water was toxic. Another audio tour gave us the insights into what it was like bathing in roman or Victorian times. It was certainly very interesting and you can understand why people flocked to Bath. After that we decided to indulge ourselves with another English tradition Cream Tea (although we didn't do the super expensive one). It was in a little cafe built on a Bridge. One of only a few like it in Europe. After that it was piling back on the bus and off to London. Bath certainly looks like somewhere where we will go back and spend some more time rather than the rush we had this time round.

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