Day 3- London

Monday 23/7/07 8.46 am

Grabbed a big fat chocolatey moist muffin from Tesco. Cheap and YUMMY. Love Tesco. And walked to Ritz Hotel to take a shuttle to victoria coach station. Just boarded the coach and about to begin my trip for today - Windsor, Stonehenge and bath. Realised that the pasteries (muffins, donuts and croissant) and chips are real yummy here. Tried their brand of chips- Walker chips. Not bad.

Cant wait to get to a place with free wi-fi so i can check my emails. Need to upload my photos too but i am too shagged to do it.

12.45pm
Visited Windsor castle. It's much more majestic than Warwick castle, in the sense that it's physically bigger than warwick castle. The gorthic architecture exudes a different feel from Warwick which reminds people of the medieval times. It's a pity that since it is still the residence of the Queen, almost all the parts of the castle are not open to the public. Only the state hall, Queen's Doll house and the St. George's Cathedral were open. A pity pictures are not allowed inside these places. The state toom was WAY more grand than Warwick. It has so much more rooms and chambers that's adorned with chandeliers, paintings, wieved carpet, gold ornaments and frames and lots of portraits of the nobles. The doll house was intricate down to the finest detail in its deco and design.



2.40pm
Out of stonehenge. Mystifying place indeed. The way the people back in those days had to transport stone of such massive size with their primitive tools was unthinking. The way they are lain with exact precision and Too bad the rain drove the temperature down all the way to 16 degrees. And 16 degrees with thin summer wear is freezing cold!!

Around the area was a village of fake houses. Not realy near but quite there. For military purposes. Fake cos no one lives there haha.


5.10pm
Left bath. The ruin of what was left of the roman bath and temple of sulius. The georgian architecture was charming and alluring. Shall leave it to the photos to say the words.

The roman bath was pretty much in a bad state, kind of hard to picture what it would have looked like. The audio guide and models constructed helped a little though. Amazing testimony of a great history left by the Romans when they invaded UK. The hot spring was regarded as Holy by the romans and attributed to the pagan goddess.




12.40am
Dinner was at Aberdeen Steak House. Finally a decent meal! The steak was really awesome. haha. As I returned to my dorm after bathing and changed into Saints' Scout polo, i made an amazing discovery. Our room mate Pat from Hong Kong is a scout!! We got so excited that we called David over, pulled out our scarves and camera, and took a picture! So cool to meet a fellow scout in UK from a different country in your own dorm! What are the chances?! Gosh it's just so amazing. The past 2 days we've also met groups of scouts from different places (Netherland and Ecuador) during our day trips. Seem like scouts from all over have gathered here much earlier for the world Jamboree and Pat is one of them! How cool! :)