Bath

Today I visited Bath it is a nice town very relaxing, though that may be because the tourists are not here yet. The town is sitting over the top of what was once a Roman town and possibly even older civilizations than that. The Roman town had a temple dedicated to Minerva because it was one of the few places that has a hot spring. Apparently this is the only one in Britain.

Roman Baths- reservoir over the spring

I enjoyed visiting the Roman Baths and walking around the town today it was interesting to see and explore. I finally had my afternoon tea in a little tea shop around the corner. It was quite nice and relaxing.

Stonehenge, Avenbury, and Glastonbury

Today I visited three places that were on my I really got to see list Stonehenge, Avenbury, and Glastonbury.

Avenbury was quite nice because there were more sheep than people out amongst the circle. This circle goes around the village that is partly in the middle of it.

Stonehenge was really a bit smaller that I was expecting but over all I enjoyed the experience of visiting this very interesting spot.

Glastonbury was probably my favorite though I wish that I had more time there so that I could have climbed the tor. During the visit we stopped at the chalice well and had a drink from the healing waters and I washed my feet in the healing pool of King Arthur. Afterwords I got to explore Glastonbury Abbey. This abbey is in ruins but it was still nice to visit and to explore this large site with the ruins all around.

Glastonbury Abbey

Palace of Versailles

Over the weekend while I was in Paris I went to the Palace of Versailles. Even though the gardens were not yet in bloom, the fountains turned off, and some of the statues covered it was still quite nice. I did a tour out there so that I could actually learn about the statues and such and a little about the kings who lived there and how the château came to be. I did go inside as well I figured the "off" season would be a good time though there where still lots of people there. Unlike Holyrood this palace really seemed over the top.

This is one of the fountains in the gardens the Apollo Fountain supposedly as he is coming out with the sun to go across the sky though with the water and the merpeople it really reminds me more of poseidon or Neptune as this was based more on the Romans than Greeks.

Apollo Fountain

Paris

For a weekend away from the UK you can't beat Paris, it is really close by train or if you can't afford that a coach is the way to go. There are even overnight coaches save your self a night  or two in a hostel!

Here I am in the wonderful, pretty, and stinky city of Paris. So far it has been nice and sunny well except for the past few hours. If one ever decides to go to Paris while many of the shop keepers speak English ordering food can be tough because the menus are in French. So far so good though today it helped that I hung out with one of the girls I met in Belfast, it just so happens she can speak French.

Over the past two days I have visited many of the tourists spots and have found them quite nice, though I didn't go to the top of any of the monuments just due to the fact that well Paris is an expensive city.

Eiffel Tower

So my spell check is trying to tell me that most words are spelled wrong and gives me French suggestions!

Baker Street

Today as I am not feeling 100% I only went to Baker Street to see the Sherlock Homes Museum. It was intresting as they have it in an actual boarding house from the victorian era. They had quite a few antiques and a really fancy wall decoractions. I spent the rest of the afternoon sleeping so that I could get better faster so that way I can have fun this weekend.

London

Today I flew off to never never land or as close as I could get, the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. I also walked around Hyde Park visited Harrods, that was something though the food section inside was quite nice I am suprised I didn't walk out with a bunch of chocolate. I also visited the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Wicked/London

So have been in London for a few days and have been to the British Museum and saw the mummy's and the Rosetta stone, each was quite interesting. Today, I went on a free walking tour of London that was very good, mostly thanks to the guide. I even got to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. After the tour me and a few others went to the Tower of London. Both in and the changing of the guard seemed very cliche though that could be just the sheer amount of people that were there.

Tonight however was quite different, I got to see Wicked the Musical. It was amazing. I am very glad that I finally got to see it. Though I noticed that it seems that people do not even kinda dress up for the theater anymore as there were people in blue jeans and hoodies. I did enjoy the musical greatly though and they had some good performers. It was a lot funnier at times than I was expecting. I hope to get to see it again someday.