Tour of the English Countryside

Today, we went on a tour of the English countryside about 2 hours away in total and saw: Windsor Castle, the city of Bath, the old city of Lacock, and the famous Stonehenge. It was a ton of fun and our tour guide was pretty awesome too. He was funny/rude to annoying tourists which was hilarious. Once this Asian man was trying to get on our bus, but the guide was trying to explain to him that we were full and there was another bus to get on for the same tour, and so he basically just shut the doors on him and then muttered to the coach driver; "Run him over."

Windsor Castle Gardens

      The first stop was Windsor Castle, which is the largest inhabited castle in England. It is an awesome castle with beautiful green flawless gardens and lawns. It is where the Queen spends most of her free time we were informed, however the queen was not present when we had our visit. We also saw the changing of the guard in the castle which was a pretty cool ceremony to see in England. We had fish and chips for our lunch at an old English pub called 'The Duchess of Cambridge' which was awesome fish and chips by the way, and it was free with our tour. Then we were off to the the city of Bath.

Roman statue next to the Roman Bath house.

                                                                                                                   
The city of Bath was very cool and has a ton of history. As the name suggests there are old bath houses that the Romans used to use, with a ton of the structures still there. We took a tour of the inside and it was pretty cool to see the original floor, ceiling and things like the altar they used for sacrifices. Also, there are a ton of very old shops, one dating back over 800 years ago.

Building in Lacock.

The next two stops were the ancient city of Lacock, and Stonehenge. Lacock was very cool, it looked like the city had stopped aging hundreds of year ago, with almost no modern technologies seen from outside. It was also the site where many popular movies are filmed, including Harry Potter. Finally Stonehenge. It was so cool to actually see Stonehenge. I've read so much about it and watched plenty of shows talking about the possibilities of what it could be, how it was built, and who built it, but nothing compares to standing in front of it. It was extremely windy and cold but well worth every second.
       Apart from all of the sites we stopped at, the English country views were very pretty as well. It made the whole trip worth the two hour drive there and back. Tomorrow is our last day in London! We are going to miss our Brixton flat.

A picture snapped from inside the bus.