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February 12, 2007
To Bath and Beyond
Went to a nice weekend trip to Bath and the surrounding area. We left London last Friday night from Europcar Heathrow. From there it's an easy less than 2 hour drive to Bath on the M4 and through really narrow country roads to Bath.
Bath is famous for its reconstructed Roman Bath, a ultra-comprehensive audio guide tour gives you a lot of information about it. It was one of the most amazing Roman site ever built in Britain. The entire city is listed in UNESCO's World Heritage list, it is one of the nicest town in Britain. The University of Bath & the tourists keeps the night life going with a few night clubs and trendy (and dodgy) bars/club dotting the city.
This was my first experience in England's country side. It is beautiful. It may not be as lush as the tropical countries, but there's an odd beauty about England's country side, full fields and paddocks as long as your eyes can see, with a low overhang rain cloud forever in the sky. I think the grey skies and its stark contrast with the green fields gives the strange beauty feel. Somehow I think this is what Tolkien imagination of Middle Earth would have been rather than Peter Jackson interpretation on the movies.
On the Sunday we left Bath to visit the Cheddar Gorge and its cave. On the way home we stopeed to visit the Stonehenge. We just stopped on the side of the road and took photos from the fence. Didn't bother to come in as it was raining and we were running out of light. I have to say I thought the Stonehenge was a lot bigger than it was, but I think you really need to be inside within the complex itself to experience it.
Good trip overall, need to do this more often while I'm still here!
Posted by vhadiant at February 12, 2007 09:46 PM
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