Am I back in NC? Oh, no, it's a better Bath.

London is by far my favorite place to be at any given time. In fact, I hope to live there/study abroad there. I can dream, right?

Today we actually didn't spend all that much time in London-we went to Bath and Stonehenge.  If you've never been to Bath and have any sort of interest in architecture/history, go right now. It is one of the greatest places ever.  It's the place where the Romans built their baths over top of thermal springs. It's the place where pride and prejudice was written. It's the place where the layout of a modern town originated. Please go. I beg you.

As someone who is incredibly obsessed with archaeology, I loved the Roman Baths. It is quite literally like wandering through history. While you stand above the Baths, you can see the minster of Bath, gazing through not one, but two incredibly amazing parts of history.  In fact, here, have a picture:

Now, my favorite part of the day was going to Stonehenge. I went to Stonehenge six years ago on a People to People trip. Two years ago, when Stonehenge became a world heritage site, an agreement was made that the site would be returned to it's former glory--removing the road up to the site, moving the visitors center, and putting the road next to the site underground.  The goal is that when you visit Stonehenge, you will see it as it was meant to be seen. The work they've done so far is wonderful, and Stonehenge is no longer dwarfed by buildings and busses and roads (oh my!). The changes allow visitors to have time to understand the site and it's significance as it's position as a prehistoric crematorium. With the removal of the urban development around the site, you can truly exit the world of the living and enter the world of the dead.