stonehenge and roman baths

okay, so for the last five days i have been trying to upload my pictures from stonehenge and the roman baths up to my blog and to facebook, but for some stupid reason they won't load. i am so frusterated! but i haven't posted for like, a week, so i guess i shall be good and post anyway, pictures or no.

wednesday morning at 8:15, we departed from just outside the british museum on a sketchy bus with a sketchy bus driver (who happened to be finishing ramadan...so yeah you can imagine what his driving must have been like), but what really saved the trip was our amazing tour guide. i don't know what it is, whether it's the actual country that breeds this kind of people, but so far all our tour guides have been just amazing. our tour guide for this trek was an older lady named maria. one of the first things she said to us as we were leaving the city was "ladies, this is for you. there is a bilboard on our right with a very lovely picture of a man that i just adore...do you know anything about 'abercrombie and fitch?'" of course, all the girls (and andrew) let out a huge sigh of...i don't know, hormones? either way, we knew it was going to be a good trip then.

the english countryside was just gorgeous. it reminded me a lot of vermont, but instead of mountains there are countless rolling hills, covered in fields and sheep for as far as the eye can see. after living in a city for almost a month, seeing grass and trees was a breath of fresh air. when we arrived at stonehenge, collected our tickets, and walked through the tunnel under the road, i found myself in front of the massive stone structure, surrounded by fields and fields of sheep. i was surprised we were allowed to get as close as we did. stonehenge was subtly bound off by a low rope, in a circle. in this way, we got a full 360 view of the entire thing. afterwards, some of us walked up to the burial grounds just over the hill, and the rest of us wandered into the fields of sheep, which are really fun to harass, by the way.

after stonehenge, we spent another hour driving into bath, a city with some of the best preserved ancient roman baths in the world. i had mixed feelings about it, simply because it was in a museum, and a lot of it was plastered off. even so, there was a lot of cool ancient artifacts, and just being there and thinking about the fact that there have been millions of gallons of hot water circulating through that place for almost two thousand years...it was all quite fascinating. actually, being in the presence of these ancient relics was unreal unto itself. you think about the things humans build now, steel and plaster and concrete, but four thousand years from now, they will be dust.

thinking about it makes my head hurt. i will put up pictures the moment i have the chance. i'm going to make my dinner now, so until i update again...

ciao!