Bath in 6 days

Only Saturday to go here, I leave on Sunday. It's been interesting & relaxing. I arrived Monday, spent most of Tuesday in the library, my milieu, eh. Wednesday was an arvo trip to Stonehenge which I enjoyed. The pictures are already on fb. Good commentary on the headsets. The police were getting ready for the Summer Solstice influx.
Thursday I booked a day trip to Avebury, another stone site as old as & way more extensive than Stonehenge. At some stage the Catholic Church decided it was too pagan & started burying the stones. Quite a feat in itself, consisting of digging an enormous hole in front of each stone, then toppling the stone in & burying it. Those stones were one third of their length into the ground to start with & weighed many tons! Those priests must have been good conmen to get the people to work that hard. Anyway they eventually, after many stone burials including a crushed barber/surgeon, gave up. Some of the stones were used for local buildings & fences too. In I think the late 1800's, 1900's an Englishman decided to dig the buried ones up & did get a fair number but apparently there are still about 40 stones down there.
An interesting titbit; I saw a stone fence with a thatched roof along the way, only about 3-4 ft high. Thought that was strange so of course I asked. Apparently the thatch acts as a water resistant roof protecting the mortar, ergo the fence lasts longer!
That trip also went to a Cotswoldian village, Castle Combe, no castle anymore, just one street but v quaint. I will get photos up. Laycock was another village, Wiltshireish maybe?, four streets this time. Again worth a look & photos.
Today I have been wandering around Bath, photos later. From the Roman Baths to the Thermae Spa, I only saw the outside of the buildings as to go inside them cost more than seeing Stonehenge. Avebury was free! I walked to the Royal Crescent, a crescent of probably Georgian apartment buildings, each apartment worth a small fortune by virtue of overlooking the Botanic Gardens. No balconies on that side though, go figure. Then I eyeballed the Circus, more apartment buildings, three sets curved in a circle around a small grassy area with five magnificent old trees. In the Gardens I took pictures of a squirrel scampering through the trees, don't know if it'll show up.
Yesterday's bus trip, as a bonus, provided a free cream tea at a local hotel so after all that walking I replaced the calories in a v tasty way. I also scored a ticket to a Noel Coward play, Relative Values, starring Patricia Hodges. I'm looking forward to that tonight. Now the library is closed so I'm using the local supermarket's Wifi!
Okay, that's probably way too much detail. So complain to the management!