One day outside London - Secret place, Bath and Stonehenge

The treat of all days. Having someone else taking care of the trip!!!

While in  Israel, Yoram found us the boutique of one day tours with "The English Bus". A company which arrange one day trips with a minibus of 16 places. Trip Adviser reviewers gave it 5 stars.
Given we were already 5 - there were additional 3 families with us from US and Italy. 

We started at 8:45 on the clock (well, we were a bit late but the others were on time). We rely calculated the distances and all but we didn't count that it is Sunday and the buses frequency is lower then usual. So Yoram, in-spite his back had a vigorous morning walk.

We started the trip and Jonny, our driver and guide, described all the places we pass through, including some stories about himself (not sure true) and in general he was very vivid and fun, sometimes too much i must say. We stopped after 45 minutes in a truck station, bought some coffee and continue. 

After the short stop, the driver took us to a secret place - that's how they call it. It is part of the atmosphere they are trying to build " our tour is special, small bus, more time to spend in each place, u can take food onboard and we take u to places nobody goes to".

Also, the driver took us off the main road and turn into smaller country roads. We passed through the Sherwood forest and all is very green and nice small cottages. We stopped at Avebury. This is a place where u can see a stone circle. There are 800 around England , the one in Stonehenge is the most popular but there are others. Same Neolithic area and no explanations why or how they get there. We were allowed to stroll around and we saw the area. The grass was green with a lot of sheep poo, as well as sheep.

 From there we had one hour to Bath. Bath is a small city, Georgian and it is famous due to its natural water spring, the only one in UK. Here we had 2.4 hours, of them a short 20 min guided tour with Johnny. We were hungry so first we went to eat. We didn't try Côte braserie yet ( another chain with gluten free food) and they have a branch here so we decided to give it a try. It was not exactly the most appropriate thing to do giving the limited time we had, but since we didn't have the opportunity to have a steak outside till now, and there was sunny outside, why not. We sat on a porch, with the view to the town abbey and had a wonderful time. And not even so long. We finished just in time to join the tour. Only us and an additional family went and then Jonny took us into the Roman bath. This is one of the 3 springs in Bath. It is located in a restaurant that was built near the old baths. A lot of people had afternoon tea ( with very nice cookies). This is something we need to put in our bucket list for the next visit. We got some small shots of water with a mild smell of sulphur. This was the tour more or less.

 Tamar saw a guy in the street with some pigeons and she wanted to try to have them sit on her. It turned pretty creepy when there were 5 on her and one on her head. I screamed as crazy when I tried to take a shot and one pigeon thought it can rest on me.

Anyhow, a lot of icecream stores around and we also had ours. My pistachio was very good. And also the others were pleased, except Amir which once in a while need to be upset. 

We all boarded on time and on our way to Stonehenge. Henge is actually a word describing a circle. The kids opted for the option to wait on the grass nearby while myself , Yoram and Yoni walked around and listened to the audio guide. We also purchased a book to learn more afterwards. The weather was great and there was still sun and we took a lot of photos.

We finished the tour around 18:00 and tired but happy  we started our trip back to London. This time the driver was quiet and let us sleep. We reached London almost at 20:30. He dropped us off in Pimlico and we walked for 10 min home. We ate at home and went to sleep. Great day!!!