Amesbury (Stonehenge)

... but the line was always out the door and along the street and you couldn't book. Still, Bath is a city full of excellent places to eat. Plus I've just booked myself in for lunch at Jamie's 15 restaurant in London on my last day in the UK, so that should be awesome!

Anyway, back to Bath. The hostel was pretty average and the showers were horrible, but I loved Bath. Teresa and I had so much fun! There are tonnes of tourist attractions, especially if ...

... Michael's Church to help us sort and pack the boxes. You are all stars...

We can't wait to start seeing the smiling faces of people receiving your shoeboxes and we promise to keep you up to date with where we are, who we meet and the reaction your gifts receive.

Check back on Monday when the Trussell team will reach Bulgaria and start distributing your shoeboxes to men, women and children living in poverty...

... dating from 1675, it was awarded “The UK’s Top Tea Place 2009” by the UK Tea Guild. Serious stuff.

Refreshed by our tea stop, we walked through the town park and over a quaint old bridge to the Saxon Church. This church, named the Church of St. Laurence, dates as far back as 709 AD! It’s a characteristic Anglo-Saxon building – tall and narrow with small windows and a simplistic, non-ornate interior. It was neat to contrast ...

... schedule we had to take the 10:15 train…well we hadn't anticipated such congestion in the tube stations nor such laborious long lines at the Waterloo Train Station…however, to save time I put the whole Tour package so we wouldn't have to wait in line again…with 5 minutes to spare our eyes quickly scanned the marquee searching for our platform…chad found it and we zipped over sitting down with 2 minutes to spare…whew…that was just the first ...

... pub name in England, with more than 480 pubs in England bearing that name.

We got to Bath and saw the Roman baths which were very interesting, and after that we got to explore Bath on our own. We didn't have much time after taking so long at the Roman Baths, so there wasn't much we could do besides walking around the city and enjoying the architecture surrounding us. Bath is a beautiful place. I would definitely like to spend more ...

The British summer solstice at Stonehenge is a fascinating and intriguing event, steeped in tradition and mysticism. It is the annual longest day of the year and a place the Druids centralised and immortalised as their pilgrimage and spiritual home. The stone circle was created more than 4,500 thousand years ago, for reasons still unknown and by methods still unconfirmed. All we do know is that enormous stones ...

Last night was interesting. One of the people sleeping in the room started to snore very loudly at about 1 in the morning. I needed my sleep and i know I could not sleep with the vibrating sounds coming from the other side of the room. I turned my iPod on, put my earbuds in and turned it on a low volume to drown out the horrible sound. I was worried I would miss my iPod alarm for the tour I had planned for today. Luckily, my friend went over and shook ...

Sometimes on the road we'd joke that we needed a vacation from our vacation. And when that vacation just happens to be a year-long journey, a day or two off to do absolutely nothing isn't only inevitable, it's essential. But I wasn't on my pace, I was on my parents', and between the fact that they had more limited time (and hadn't been doing this for 11 months), the rental and paying all the bills, I wasn't in a position to be calling the shots. I say all this ...

I end up on a bus with 25 women from Vietnam. The trip is somewhat taxing and suddenly it turns out that my motion sickness is back. I get some pill from one of the passengers, and by the time we reach Stonehenge I begin to feel alive again.

Stonehenge is this pile of megalitic rocks brought from Wales by the Celts, although it's just one of the countless theories about this place. It is located on a vast plain in the middle of ...