An old roommate of hers, Serena, was visiting her.
We'd planned to spend that weekend with a visit to Stone Henge on Friday and the next day we were to attend the May Ball that was organized by our study abroad program.
I'll be recounting our day trip on Friday in this blog.
So, we all got up bright and early to some drizzle and headed for the train station by bus. On the bus were some students heading for campus for exams...most of whom were actually American. I was thanking my lucky stars I had no exams to worry about.
We got to Bath and the sky started clearing up.
Serena and Rebekah
It really is such a lovely town. Rebekah gave Serena and I a little tour which included the Royal Circle where all the posh people live.
Royal Circle
We were thinking about visiting the Roman Baths but got too distracted just exploring.
Gardens that you have to pay to get into...
Around lunchtime, our tour bus for Stone Henge arrived. It was quite a long drive out...and I might have slept through most of it.
Once we got to the site, I just couldn't keep my eyes off the Stones. I almost had to pinch myself, I was just thinking, "Oh my god, the famous Stone Henge is, like, right there!!!"
Halfway through our walk around the stones, we stopped for a bit to have our lunch. It was the picnic at Stone Henge I'd always wanted!
On the way back to Bath, our tour guide made a stop at the lovely town of Lacock where they filmed some of BBC's Pride and Prejudice (with the Firth) as well as some of Harry Potter . He insisted we all get out to stretch our legs and let him show us around the town which was really quite small.
Imagine no cars, some dirt roads, and we have the town from P&P!
This was apparently the cottage that portrayed the house of Harry Potter's parents. It supposedly appeared briefly in the Mirror of Esired in the first film installment.
St. Cyriac's Church where Laura Parker Bowles was married
On the drive back
When we got back to Bath, we walked around a bit more looking for dinner...and I suggested a picnic by the river. We ended up doing just that.
We found a Waitrose, gathered up a light dinner and settled ourselves at a picnic table.
It was the perfect conclusion to a very eventful day.
1 comment:
It's so exciting to see the little village that P&P (nice abbreviation by the way) was filmed in. It was almost like you were there with the Firth, huh? As if you two were somehow connected ;)
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