Bailbrook House Bath

What an arrival <br><br>Having board the easy jet flight we were told that the wind was blowing at 50 MPH in bristol well whats new its bristol we arrive 15 minuites late after a pretty bumpy decent but smooth landing at Bristol airport <br><br>Welcome to wind and rain as the door open follow by a gale blowing accross the runway<br>

... as you don't know how it goes till it goes, but the experience will be great and it will also be good on my actor's CV as it is my first film as a talking role. Plus as my friends say you just don't who spots you in these films and it may be your lucky break. So we will shall see.<br>As far as the trip goes, the filming is only going to be 3 days, so I have also planned to see a few friends while I am there. Also my good friend, Maren, who I stayed with in August, is putting me up ...

... br>Wandering around the village we browsed numerous antique shops and a shop owned by Prince Charles, although it must have been his RDO because we didn't see him there.<br><br>The Snooty Fox, a restored hotel around 500 years old was our next home for the night. Another lovely dinner, this time Grilled Chicken, Lamb and tarty, chocalately things for "puddin" as the local lass serving us called it.<br ...

I think I ended up back in Trowbridge at the best time of the year... lol What with Halloween and Guy Fawkes night!! <br><br>I was a little exhausted when I got back. I think I was happy to be somewhere where I didn't have to literally live out of my suitcase! <br><br>While I was back, I opened a bank account and also applied for my national insurance number so I can work in the UK. It was a fairly short process because I have a British passport! I've applied ...

... to Pizza express.. and they have these entrees called Dough Balls!! lol more fat and more grease to eat!! By this stage I was finding it hard to walk normally down the stairs to the toilet.. woops<br><br>I think we ended up at another pub and with Ally's brother and his friends.. was quite a fun night but the headache the next day.. ouch. Apparently its because I had mixed my cider and wine.. a no no. Ah well you live and learn!

... lots of different pictures from different angles because I thought the architecture was amazing. I wanted to go in the abbey, but they were actually holding graduation ceremonies there for students from the University of Bath. I got there right as they were coming out and throwing their caps up into the air and taking pictures with their families; it reminded me of my graduation, but it seemed cooler because they graduated in Bath Abbey. :) The ...

... hour drive is nothing for an American. And we were off. Unfortunately it gets dark so early that we couldn't really see the landscape. All was well until we hit the M4.... the traffic. It wasn't on the scale of LA but it was a pain. We needed a stretch, some petrol and a loo so we stopped at the Reading Services. Whilst in the loo Beth and I were talking about the traffic and a woman ...

... as colourful floor tiles in the shape of dolphins and sea horses, coins from every era found as offerings to the goddesses, jugs, curse tablets, bronze statues and even sacrificial pillars. We were able to see the old part of the roman courtyard which had been found under millennia of construction and additions. We continued exploring other pools of hot spring water. It was hard to believe that ...

... at Stonehenge, which is something that was on my list. Stonehenge is about an hour outside of Bath and was scenically in the middle of nowhere. The bus driver provided us with a few tidbits of information along the ride: thatched roof houses in small villages, still unmodernized, and hillside carvings of white horses which stand for prosperity. Just as I'm not a fan of magic, I'm not a fan of unsolved mysteries although it did make Stonehenge all the ...

John and I travelled around England in his car. It was tiring for him, because I didn't have British or international drivers license and he had to drive all the way from Milton Keynes through Oxford, Preston, Hereford and Bath. Besides, because I didn't have much money, he always bought me meals and the Nakamuras and John's friend in Preston offered us accommodation.<br><br>One of the most memorable places ...