Danish Adventure: Windsor to Salisbury to Bath to Cornwall

Time for the next family adventure story :-) Mom, Dad and Kins arrived in London a couple days before me to do a bit of exploring and acclimating before I joined. Instead of driving into London to get them I had them meet me out at Windsor castle. I may be bold enough to drive on the highway and in small towns on the wrong side of the road. However, I am not crazy enough to try to drive into London city center. No way! I have made it a week so far without running into anything, not that there haven't been close calls. It is so strange driving on the other side of the car and in the wrong lane.

We even saw the Duke (but beats the heck out of me which Duke it was)

On to Salisbury for 2 nights. We had an evening private tour of Stonehenge where we had an afternoon of touring around Salisbury and a chance to walk among the stones of Stonehenge for an hour after it is closed to the public. It was an amazing experience, and we learned so much from our entertaining guide Pat Shelley. However it was freezing outside (unfortunately the coldest day we have had here in the UK so far), with bone chilling wind. Dad was about to die. By dinner time we were all shivering, pretty sure the people at the restaurant thought we were hillbilly bumpkins.

We started off the tour at Woodhendge, funny little monument which is set up to represent how they found all these wood pillar holes during excavations.

The other group at Stonehenge, they were in a little song circle at this point. Was pretty to see them calmly soaking in the monument. However, next they were doing grade school type songs and skipping around... started to get a bit much. People are strange.

The next day we spent a lazy morning playing games and drinking tea at our B&B. Still not prepared to venture back out into the elements after the day before. There was quite a bit of rain and wind still. Not appealing. Afternoon came along and we finally decided it was time to venture out, and off we went to tour the cathedral and town. Luckily the weather cleared up considerably while we were out and about :-)

We went to Salisbury cathedral and wandered around reading about how it inspired the Pillars of the Earth book which I just finished reading for book club. Really fun to see in real life after reading the book(not that it was a real story of course, but just interesting to see all the parallels between the book and the cathedral's own story).

Our next stop, Bath. Beautiful!!! We had such a wonderful stay at the most amazing little B&B I think any of us have ever stayed in (Bodhi House if anyone goes to bath, look her up!). We had fresh made gourmet breakfasts every morning (fresh fruit crepes, eggs benedict, omelet, etc.), yummm. We were lucky to be the only ones who were staying in the B&B the two nights we were there so we pretty much had the place to ourselves and were just treated as part of the family. We even had our dog fix for a couple days, Musk was the sweetest dog you could imagine. She just lived it up with all the loves we handed down to her :-)

The weather improved greatly and we happily explored the adorable heritage city. Think all of us could have spent more time here even :-)

Angels climbing the ladder to heaven.

The rafters were incredible in the cathedral.

We decided to take a lazy afternoon at the spa, it actually turned into a really beautiful afternoon and we ended up laying outside in the sun in between our soaks and sauna visits. Not to say we didn't look a tad bit out of place walking up to this giant hotel/spa. They were really nice to us anyway though, not that I would expect anything else, everyone in England has been quite wonderful. It is amazing how many friendly people we have met on our travels already.

Our tour round the city by a local guide, he was a funny old man who was crazy about the architecture. Kettie and I tuned out bout half way through, there is only so much I can listen to whom built what, and where. I much more like seeing the monuments and the ruins :-p

Our last day we spent the morning touring the Roman Baths

We spent the morning before we left wandering around the Roman Bath ruins. Amazing how much they have restored the ruins. Really hard to imagine what this place was really like in the high times. They say that Bath was the Vegas of the day. Funny to picture with all the prudishness and religious rules that this place would have been allowed.

We are now in a house of our own in Cornwall, in a little town called Porthpean. First day we spent exploring the town and our new coastline, quite a nice spot for our stay for this week. Nice and relaxing, well, relaxing when we are not hiking straight up the side of the cliffs ;-p

Dad sitting on our little picnic table (hasn't been quite warm enough to actually use it at night though).