I'm continuing my travel diaries series today, which is basically a little blog post every week about a different destination. These recent trips are from May, but I wasn't sure if I'd post them or not, so they are a bit late. Previous posts include Reykjavik, Iceland and Paris, France. Check them out! Today's post is all about arriving in the UK and spending a few days in Wiltshire visiting family. I spent time in Salisbury, Warminster and Bath and here's what happened!
Our trip began by us taking the Eurostar from Paris to London. From there we took the tube to Hatton Cross station and my Uncle Ray and cousin, Connor, came to pick us up. We arrived in the evening and we were pretty exhausted. We took a shower, ate some delicious Chinese food and then went to bed.
The next morning we drove in to Salisbury to see the cathedral. We stopped at the pub pictured above called 'The New Inn'. There was definitely nothing new about it, but we had a delicious lunch!
Salisbury Cathedral was spectacular. It was overwhelming how big it was and how it dominated the landscape around it. I'm not a religious person, but I recommend that anyone visits if they are in the area, the architecture and history of the place is mind-blowing! One of my favourite things to see were the incredible stained glass windows and the architecture of the entire cathedral, the foundation bricks were laid in the year 1220.
Pictures truly don't do this justice, and this was only one window. There were several surrounding the entire cathedral, some much larger and more detailed than this, and others much smaller, and so high up that you could barely see them.
I thought it was important to add Larry into my post, he is one of my Aunt and Uncles 5 cats, and to be honest Larry was a bit of a princess and very entertaining during our stay.
The next day we went to Wookey Hole, a cave system in Wiltshire. It was really cheesy, with tours mentioning the Witch of Wookey Hole and various dinosaur figures and creepy old Victorian arcades. It was still very amusing, and despite the cheesy tour, the caves were pretty amazing and the surrounding area was beautiful.
Later that day my Uncle dropped us off in Bath and we went to The Pump Room for afternoon tea. We ordered the vegetarian platter and had an awesome time eating delicious desserts and drinking two massive pots of tea. There was a pianist playing in the background, and we sat around in the incredible Georgian tea room, probably the first and last time we sat and treated ourself this trip!
After our tea, we wandered over next door to the Roman Baths. The baths are incredible and it's quite overwhelming when you think about how old it all is. The museum was really well done, and we spent a lot of time wandering through other tourists and seeing everything we could. A good tip is to not take one of the little handheld speaker things, unless you really need one, because they basically read you all of the information already listed throughout the exhibition but tend to hold everyone up. We read everything in about half the time and didn't have to stand around waiting to start a new recording while there were people standing in the way.
After going to the Roman Baths we walked over to Bath Abbey and wandered around, another incredible place to visit. Afterwards, we crossed the river, bought a drink and sat enjoying the view!
I hope you enjoyed another Travel Diaries post.
Thanks for reading!
Megan
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