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This is the main bath. We got to go down there but you were advised not to touch the water because it is still the same as it was back then...which means not purified and swimming with bacteria.
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This is Bath Abbey....right next to the baths but not near as cool.
This pool is the last bath that the people would get into after all of the hot springs. This one was very cold and was supposed to close their pores.
It took my the longest time to figure out! so the floor was built on top of these little stacks so that the heat from the springs would go underneath the floor and warm it for the people who were walking on it! I thought it was very cool.
This is a map of what the baths looked like. As you can see there are more than just one. The main big pool was the community pool. Then there were separate ones that were for specific things. The men and women were separated for bathing, so two of the smaller ones were for that. There was also a healing pool, a changing room....and honestly, I can't remember what all!
This is kelcie testing the water after it's been purified....it was still hot and nasty! bleh!
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| This is the healing pool. People would just sit in here and hope that the water would heal them. |
Wells Cathedral
One of the smaller pools.
This is the oldest thorn tree in England. They normally dont grow in England actually, but for some reason they do in glastonbury.
These are the remains of Glastonbury Cathedral.It was one of the richest and most powerful medieval foundations. It also is apart of the myth of King Arthur. His remains are said to have been found here....but then again, they've also been "found" in Wales, France, Germany, a lot of others, and last of all, South America? Yeah....that's a little far fetched
Pulteney Bridge. One of the worlds most beautiful bridges.
our hostel in bath :)
us and our friends having dinner :)
At night we went to this place called Komedia and heard some Irish and English comedians....they were actually very funny and we could understand them!!! yay!
STONEHENGE!!!!
This is a place i've been wanting to go to for a LONG time! It's so amazing and yet such a mystery. It began being built in 3000BC and wasn't finished until 2000BC...that's a thousand year long project!!! They still dont' know exactly why it was built, but I think their best assumption is that it was for keeping track of the revolution of the sun leading to their understanding of time. There are two rocks that show the two solstices, summer and winter. One rock is lined up with the sun on the winter solstice and the other on the summer solstice. The sun would also rise (i think) in a certain arch according to what month it was. for example, if it was july then it would shine through the "july" arch. The stones weren't even from around here either. The small stones were from wales which are 240km away and had to be transported by river, and the big stones were from 30km away. They weighed up to 45 tons, the same as seven elephants! One stone took 200 men and 12 days to move....incredible! They think that they used pulleys and ramps to move and set the stones up. One thing they don't really know is how they put the top stones on. You cant really see it in these pictures but the vertical stones have little notches in them so that the horizontal stones on top would fit kind of like a puzzle. Other than that, they think this was a worshiping place, maybe for the sun god.
This is the hind stone...and I can't remember why it was significant :/
This is what Stonehenge looked like when it was finished.
This was a very cool place to go! I'm so glad I finally got to see it with my own eyes :) although.....it was FREEZING!!! all of the pictures of stonehenge show the sun shining...yeah....the english people know how to fool you. THEY NEVER SEE THE SUN!
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