Moving day: We had to have our luggage outside our rooms at 6:30, which was pretty darned early considering our long day on Friday. After breakfast we left the Radisson Vanderbilt hotel and boarded the bus under overcast skies and much cooler temperatures. We did not spend a lot of time in London, but we certainly had wonderful weather while here. We just hope that this will hold up as we continue on the next phase of our journey.

We journeyed west from London for about two and a half hours to the ancient city of Bath. Here are the hot springs and the location of the famous Roman baths. Because of the traffic we were late arriving and had to hurry through our time visiting the baths. Even so we were late leaving the baths and that put us behind schedule for the rest of the day.

Above the warm water of the baths

Waiting for the baths

Bath entrance

Jane Austen spent several years in Bath and described the city in some of her books. It so happened that this was the first day of the Jane Austen Festival, and this obviously added to the traffic and crowds. We saw a number of people in costume, and of course we had to peek into the Pump Room made famous in her novels.

Jane Austen fans

Jane Austen Festival

Linda ready to take a dunk

It was not a long drive from Bath to Stonehenge, maybe about an hour. The Visitor’s Center is some distance from the stones and we took a bus up to the henge itself. Kevin gave us a great deal of information about the history and the current thinking about the structure. He emphasized that there were many more henges throughout England and Europe and some are much larger. The really unique feature of Stonehenge is that the stones were shaped and the large lentels were placed along the tops of the enormous stones.

Linda at Stonehenge

Stonehenge along the avenue

Our nice hotel in Mickelton

We left Stonehenge about 4:30 for the two+ hour ride to our hotel in the small village of Mickelton. Along the way, we said farewell to Kevin at the rail station in Swindon where he returned to London. Along the way we noticed many, many sheep farms, and when we arrived at our hotel we immediately sat down to dinner–where most of us has a very fine lamb steak.