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Salisbury Cathedral
This Cathedral actually has one of the four remaining copies of the Magna Carta in existance. Just back from my weekend trip to Stonehenge/Bath/Salisbury.
We stayed in a really nice little guesthouse/bed and breakfast in Salisbury. The owner was super nice, the place was way nicer than I expected, and the food was good (though we missed the "breakfast" part of "bed and breakfast" on Sunday. Sleeping is good. Whoops. :p). I definately enjoyed the b&b way more than I would have enjoyed a hostel. It was so nice... kind of like staying in someone's house. And even though the bathroom was shared by a whole floor, I felt sure that it was clean, and the TP was even often folded into a point, which pleased me in an odd way. The real bonus was it was actually a few pounds cheaper than the only hostel that wasn't booked up.
We saw the Roman baths in Bath, Salisbury Cathedral (obviously in Salisbury), and Stonehenge (though briefly). The baths were awesome indeed, and I drank some spring water (!!!). People used to believe that the springs were a gift/blessing from the gods, and that they had healing and restorative properties, and would travel for ages to bathe in them or drink from them. Now I suspect
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It was freezing cold and intermittently snowing when we went to Stonehenge. I bet you'd never guess from the picture, now would you? it is treated before you put it in your mouth, as the spring itself was a little algae-filled. The water was too warm for my taste, and kind of metallic, but I'm glad I drank it. It was definately one of my favorite things we did. I would really like to go back at some point, I think.
The cathedral was pretty and cathedral like. To be honest, the actual cathedrals are running together at this point. Though we did go to an evensong service (my first). AND - highlight of this cathedral - I saw one of the four remaining copies of the Magna Carta. It's also (I think) the most well preserved copy.
Stonehenge was nice to see, and to be able to see I've seen... but it was sooooo cold. There was nothing around to block the wind, which was really the worst part. Then we /just/ missed the bus back, so were faced with sitting in the freezing cold parking lot for an hour. But the next bus magically appeared, and we were prepared to get on it and go to /any/ town just to get someplace warm... but it terminated at Stonehenge and
More Stonehenge
More Stonehenge then did the return trip, and the driver was nice enough to let us (and a bunch of other people) sit on the bus out of the wind. Ideally, if I go back, I'd like to hire a car and have more freedom with coming and going, plus the ability to easily access other ruins in the area, which aren't really convenient by bus.
We stopped at a BK for lunch on the way there, and I got irritated at the employee, who was really stupid and rude, and then gave me the wrong food (so, hey, no change from home). I'd wanted a double cheeseburger, which I envisioned as two meat patties stacked on top of each other. What I got was the Double Bacon Cheeseburger XL, which turned out to the the largest hunk of dead cow that I've ever ate in one sitting. I didn't manage to finish it, if that tells you how big it was. Tristan managed to get me into an Indian restaurant in Salisbury! I wasn't really hungry due to the aforementioned Cheeseburger of Doom, so I just had garlic fried rice (delicious), and 1/3ish of T's garlic nan (flat bread type
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Yet more Stonehenge thing) - (can you tell I like garlic?). I tried some of T's food (chicken tikka, which is curry-flavored, but not in the sauce which I like much better - I hate the sauce). We also ate at this really nice little italian restaurant in Bath that had food to die for. I actually tried something I'd never had before, and it was divine. The noodles were huge and tubular, and they were stufed full of meat. The whole thing was covered in mozzerella and laid in a bed of marinara and cream blended together and baked. It was called like cannellini or something like that... I didn't eat at any place that was familiar while we were away, so I think that should earn me a gold star for trying new things. :p
I found a dedicated sweet shop with a diabetic section in bath, so happiness on that front. I got a bunch of British candy (apparently boiled hard candies)... including sherbert lemons of Harry Potter fame. 😊 I was soooo excited about this. I got a surprise (and Tristan got to laugh at me) when I ate one though, because the sherbert part is not a
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And even more Stonehenge flavor, but a thing that is in the center and tingles kind of like pop rocks when you suck all the candy away from the outside! It scared me a bit - I totally was not expecting it. I was pointing at my mouth and kind of hopping in the middle of town, and he was like "so you've gotten to the sherbert part, then?"
I also found some sugar free strawberry jam, which pleases me. I've been so hungry for sweet things since I got here that I ate a piece of toast with jam on it for the first time in my life. I told T that and he laughed and asked if I liked it, and when I did he said something about how I was english at heart. :p
Back to classes for the week.
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Amaya
I know you don't know me but I just wanted to tell you that your pictures in this entry are very nice. Now that I have seen them and have read your entry here I am pondering on visiting that place :).