Day trips from London #2 - Stonehenge and bath

My second day trip is very much impromptu. Group of friends got an offer and booked the tickets the night before - next morning we got into the double decker coach. This time I quite enjoyed the coach travel as our driver and tour manager are super nice and friendly plus I was with fun group😜.
Our first stop was Stonehenge and, even though we didn't have much of expectations of the trip, I still felt a tinge of disappointment. I was hoping we could walk in-between the stones and would be able to touch them, however, the nearest we could get to the stones is a good ten feet away from them.

 

Loved this guy more than Stonehenge😍

After about an hour, we started from Stonehenge and made our way to bath. Rest of our gang already went on Europe tour by then and they felt like we were in Rome ( I was still waiting for my schengen visa at that time and didn't get a chance to visit Rome in my later trip either😥). 

We roamed around a bit, had a baguette for lunch (my hopes of getting tea flavored ice cream vanished as the freezer wasn't working 😔) and met with others for a walking tour in front of this beautiful building.

We walked through narrow alleys paved with stone roads. 

Something about brick walls and windows with flower beds always fascinates me

The narrow alley opened to this wide area surrounded by circular structure and filled with visitors lying on the grass enjoying the sunny afternoon.

Our tour manager was giving us lot of information about the place, however, we were occupied trying (and failing, I must say 😌) to capture the beautiful flowers by the road.

Then we came across Jane Austen's residence.

When done with the walking tour, it was time to visit the famous bath. The queue for entry tickets was big enough that we got few mins admiring the magnificent dome and furnishings 😯.

After getting our tickets, we entered the terrace overlooking the bath.

There was another bubbling bath which is a natural geyser. Visitors aren't allowed near to this bath for preservation purpose and have to watch it from a narrow opening.

There is a legend around it - long time ago, the prince of the region had a skin abnormality no doctor could cure, because of which he was disqualified to be crowned as king and led his life as pig keeper on outskirts of the kingdom. One day, he noticed one of his pigs, which also got a similar skin situation as his, fell into this bath and was miraculously cured. He started taking baths here and got cured. Since then, this bath is believed to have medicinal properties. In one of the wings in the building, there is a tap where we could get a glass of this water.

There are few artifacts inside the building aptly arranged and few minor streams.

There was a theme shop at the exit with loads of interesting bath and skin care products. However, it was time to leave and we had to rush to our coach.

After a fun filled day we were on our way back to London. I enjoy journeys as much as I enjoy the destinations, if not more, and views like these make them even better.

It was a unique place and apparently gives a glimpse of how Rome would look 😅. I liked how this place was different to my first trip and made a note to plan my next day trips to be as different to each other as possible.