Farewell Paris and hello London.

We’ve arrived in the UK for the final part of our holiday. Catching the Eurostar is a great way to travel. Customs was a simple process. We made sure we had plenty of time. When we boarded, there was plenty of room for our luggage – thank goodness!

Its simple and quick, and we are in London within a couple of hours. It’s a short walk from Pancras Station to Avis where we pick up our car. Today we are heading to gorgeous Bath. Once we get the satnav working in the car we are on the road.

Steve has booked us into a lovely Inn about 4 miles out of town.

The pub is great with good food and some delicious local beer and ciders. It was a real find.

After a great nights sleep and lovely breakfast we drive to Bath city.

Bath is a quintessential English city with a lovely Abbey to visit. It is also famous for the Roman Baths, which are really worth seeing. They have been here for a long time. Evidence shows a temple was constructed on the site between 60 and 70 AD.

The Roman Baths get a whopping 1.3 million visitors a year, and they are well worth the admission charge. And just in case you wondered, no, you can’t jump into these ones. The baths stopped being used in 1978 after the death of a young girl who had swum in them. A dangerous and deadly pathogen was discovered in the water. They have never been reopened for bathing.

Bath is also famous for Palladium style architecture. Pulteney Bridge was completed by 1774, is a bridge over the River Avon in Bath. It was designed by Robert Adam in a Palladium style. It has shops built across its full span on both sides, akin to the Ponte Vecchio in Florence.

The Baths, the Abbey and the architecture what else is there to see?

I often turn to Dr Google to learn new things about places we are going. One fact jumped out at me in particular about Bath. Did you know that the planet Uranus was discovered here? The famous astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet on the 13th of March 1781, from his backyard. I am now very keen to find out by whom and when all the other planets were discovered.

Before we leave Bath we decide to go and have a look at the Bath Markets. I understand that they are crazy busy at Christmas time.

The Bath Markets have a sign out the front that you need to read before entering. I must say that I don’t mind them.

As well as shops there is a sign in the Markets that you can see above. How exciting Stonehenge is so close. And as soon as we see that, we decide to make a little detour on the way to Penzance. Each time I have the chance, we make a visit to get up close and personal with the stones.

I love almost everything about Stonehenge. I say almost anything because, in an ideal world, I stand side by side with the stones. I have always thought that the energy here is pretty amazing and this was before the latest discovery.

Over the years access to Stonehenge has changed considerably. The car park is now a lot further away than it was the first time I came here. In fact it is so far that you have the option to catch a bus. We walked to the Stones and caught the bus back.

There are a lot of people who wouldn’t contemplate paying GBP28.00 to get close to the rocks and I completely get that. But I am not one of them. You can see them from the fence line. However, I like to get as close as I can. I call it being about my inner druid.

I’m not sure if it’s the warmth that comes from them. It could also be the way the stones are arranged, which means there are acoustic qualities. Whatever it is – I get this place.

There is always something new happening here.

Recently scientists came out saying that they’ve “cracked the code” to a Stonehenge secret. The altar stone (the rock in the centre above) is likely to have originated from the very north of Scotland. That is from Shetland or the isles of Orkney. That means this mammoth rock (more than six tonne) at it was hauled 450 miles about 4,500 years ago.

How can you not be impressed by this?

As Steve drags me away from my stones we head for Penzance.

We are staying in a converted shipping container and are on the hunt for pirates – I can’t wait.