Day 6, Thursday, London to Stonehenge, Bath & Wales

Feeling a bit sad to be leaving David and Victoria's place, we packed up and left at our usual lunch-time(!) Our train ride to Fulham on the other side of London was actually the easiest of the lot. Once there, I was surprised to see Stamford Bridge, the (stadium) home of Chelsea Football Club right there. Two streets away we found our car hire place. Dismissing an over-attendant helper, we jumped into a shiny, silver, 3-week-old Peugeot 206 - mmmm - and started driving out of London, something I was a bit apprehensive about.

In no time at all, we had hit the motorway and began our car trip in the beautiful English countryside. Aside from the greenery, every so often you see fields of yellow: rape seeds. After about 90 minutes, suddenly by the side of the road we saw the infamous circle of stones we had targeted:

Truth be told, we just leaned over the fence to get our few snapshots, rather than pay the 7 pounds. Besides we were running late. So it was hit the road, Jack. Getting closer to our destination, we were delayed by a road diversion. The plus was that it took us through Bradford-on-Avon and other quaint little towns like this:

The downside was that by the time we got to Bath, it was after 7pm and the Roman baths had closed for viewing (something that was becoming a theme on the trip!) Still, we wandered around the place a bit and soaked up its beauty:
"Oh, gorgeous! Beautiful! Wish you were here!" I mean, we could be someplace in Rome or something:
This must be nice to stay for a night or two and take a romantic walk by the river:
But enough of all this gorgeousness: it was getting late and we still had a few hours to drive to make our stop for the night in northern Wales! Good for us, it's really easy to find your way on England's roads as everything is marked very well. And our map book was accurate. Still, we had tried as usual to do too much in one day, esp. leaving late, so we arrived at Dave and Denise Kelly's (pastor friends from South Africa who had moved) at... 10.30pm! Think twice before you invite us to stay! Bless the man, he had a huge helping of Chinese takeaways ready for us and a nice cup of tea before we hit the sack...