On Friday, we started out early around 8 am and caught the Evan Evans connection to our tour bus. The bus left London and took us to Windsor Castle. At that point we realized that we were doing the Reader's Digest Condensed version of these places since they were pretty spread out. We had about a 2 hours at Windsor Castle and Bath, and about 45 minutes at Stonehenge. At Windsor Castle the main tour group went to the royal apartments, but Mama wanted to see Henry VIII, so we toured St. George's Chapel. The chapel was absolutely amazing inside- no pictures allowed though. We walked around the grounds as well.
Since time was tight, we grabbed a sandwich and ate on the bus- no beer during that lunch. It started pouring right when we got back to our seat, so timing was perfect.
Bath was about 2 hours away, so we both nodded off on the way. The baths weren't mobility-friendly, so we toured around the top floor looking down, then headed about town. We returned after a little shopping to have high tea at the Pump Room, next door to the Baths. Except we had beer and a glass of the water out of the spring. Mama thought it would heal everything- it tasted like hot water out of some bad pipes.
Stonehenge was a couple of hours away, and we arrived to full force winds. I had to pull the walker along as the winds were pushing back hard as we walked through the tunnel and up the hill to Stonehenge. We just walked out and took some pictures and left. It was too windy even to listen to the audio tour. The bus arrived back in London around 7:30. I had to hold Mama back from snapping at a couple of rude American thirteen year olds and their father. I had snapped at the once. They were always talking or snickering while our tour guide was talking. It was the first time we encountered rude Americans- most everyone else had been rude Europeans (I'm excluding the Brits and the Scots here!).
Tomorrow we're having tea at the Ritz (I ended up buying a coat, a shirt and a tie!) and off to the British museum in the afternoon.
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