My parents and Stephen have less than three weeks to fit in London plus three European cities. I was determined that they would see as much as I could cram into their schedule … hence despite their arrival near midnight last night I made them get up super early so that we could fit in a day trip to Stonehenge, Bath and Windsor. Poor family! Ha ha!

For our trip I didn’t want to join one of those massive bus tours so I found International Friends who promised a more intimate visit (maximum of 16.) We met at the Cumberland Hotel where I took Dad and Mum inside to check out “our” bar before being picked up.

The most frustrating thing about day trips out of the London is that you quite often spend most of the day in your vehicle – especially if you’re trying to hit three different destinations like we were. Thankfully the traffic wasn’t too horrific and the time in the bus, when the guide wasn’t speaking, could be used by everyone to rest their eyes!

The way International Friends tours work is that the guide gives you a bit of a story whilst your in the bus, a short introduction when you get to the site and then you’re pretty much left to your own devices. This suited us perfectly.

Like anyone who visits Stonehenge everyone expressed their surprise at just how small it was. Although I was pleased to see that Dad was very excited and was taking photos all over the place. We had quite a bit of time at Stonehenge and pleasingly we’d beaten most of the giant tour buses so pretty much had it to ourselves. Having said that it was freakin’ cold so as soon as we were ready we ran into the shop! Ha ha!

A short drive after Stonehenge we got to Bath. Bath is known for its hot springs so we obligingly entered the Roman Baths museum. It was majorly crowded but, for me, extremely boring! But only cause I’d been there before. The most fascinating part of the museum was the video projection they had inside one of the baths of roman men taking baths … could you blame me for finding this interesting? 😉

Next up for the day was a visit to Windsor. By this time it was about mid-afternoon and we only had about an hour at Windsor. So what do we do? Oh no, we don’t visit Windsor Castle, instead we went into TK Maxx shopping for coats! Ha ha! We did have a fun time looking around though!