UK: Bath and Stonehenge
So what better to do on a weekend than to escape the buzzing hive of activity of London and to head out to the countryside. You are greeted with lush green rolling hills with the livestock leisurely grazing at the grass. It's far removed to the concrete jungle that London has evolved to be. Our journey, would see us head to both Bath and Stonehenge.
The City of Bath is famed for its Roman remains and Georgian architecture is situated 120 miles west of London. It's a charming and quaint city filled with laneways of history and stories of the past. The Romans conceptualized and built a bathing establishment known throughout Europe, the Saxons and Normans erected monasteries and cathedrals and finally with the pre-modern age, Georgian architecture constructed to complete the ecelectic mix.
Rolling green hills overlooking the city
Pulteney Bridge - Built for William Pulteney by Robert Adams, the bridge was an attempt to connect central Bath to land on the other bank of the River Avon and make Pulteney's fortune.
The Royal Crescent was built between 1767 and 1775 to the design of John Wood the Younger, and forms a semi-ellipse of thirty Grade I listed houses arranged around a great Lawn.
Begun in 1499, Bath Abbey is the last of the great medieval churches of England.
More images can be found here
Stonehenge
For the uninitiated allow me to post an extract from Wikipedia:
"Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) west of Amesbury and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and sits at the centre of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.[1] Archaeologists had believed that the iconic stone monument was erected around 2500 BC
I present to you in colour - Stonehenge.
And something a little more edgier!
To be honest, it's rather difficult to be overly enthused by what is essentially a set of rocks piled together, but nevertheless the mystery of its function and the reason for the construction is one of interest.
If anything, i guess i can tick it off the "list of things to see that i can say i have seen".
The City of Bath is famed for its Roman remains and Georgian architecture is situated 120 miles west of London. It's a charming and quaint city filled with laneways of history and stories of the past. The Romans conceptualized and built a bathing establishment known throughout Europe, the Saxons and Normans erected monasteries and cathedrals and finally with the pre-modern age, Georgian architecture constructed to complete the ecelectic mix.
Rolling green hills overlooking the city
Pulteney Bridge - Built for William Pulteney by Robert Adams, the bridge was an attempt to connect central Bath to land on the other bank of the River Avon and make Pulteney's fortune.
The Royal Crescent was built between 1767 and 1775 to the design of John Wood the Younger, and forms a semi-ellipse of thirty Grade I listed houses arranged around a great Lawn.
Begun in 1499, Bath Abbey is the last of the great medieval churches of England.
More images can be found here
Stonehenge
For the uninitiated allow me to post an extract from Wikipedia:
"Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) west of Amesbury and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and sits at the centre of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.[1] Archaeologists had believed that the iconic stone monument was erected around 2500 BC
I present to you in colour - Stonehenge.
And something a little more edgier!
To be honest, it's rather difficult to be overly enthused by what is essentially a set of rocks piled together, but nevertheless the mystery of its function and the reason for the construction is one of interest.
If anything, i guess i can tick it off the "list of things to see that i can say i have seen".
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