Day 6 London

Queen Victoria's Engine

Lacock Village (the cars kind of spoil the old world charm here).

Pasty's at the Cornish Bakery

We got to our hotel pretty late that evening and were up early to catch our scheduled tour bus to see Windsor castle, Stonehenge, Lacock Village and Bath. It was lovely to spend a day out in the country.

My favorite thing at Windsor castle was probably Queen Mary’s doll house. This doll house is completely to scale with working lights, lifts, plumbing (even a flushing toilet), paintings, monogrammed linens and miniature stories written and bound. We weren’t allowed to take pictures, but I swiped these online.

Next was a visit to Stonehenge. It was very cool to see and be near to something that dates back to 3000 BC.

Lacock is an adorable village that takes you back in time. It has been used for films including Harry Potter, Downton Abbey and the BBC Pride and Prejudice. This was a very short stop.

We didn’t have a long time in Bath, either. Just enough time to walk to the Royal Crescent, look at the Roman baths and get a little lunch at a Cornish bakery. I had a scrumptious Thai chicken pasty with a warm butterscotch drink. Scott had hazelnut hot chocolate with a beef filled pasty.

*There are so many tours to pick from. We decided on Golden Tours because they had good ratings and a decent price. My advice is to not do all in one day (and we are travelers that do a lot with a day!) In Windsor we barely had time to make it through the castle audio tour before we were back on the bus (a little bit late, I might add). There is a train that goes straight to Windsor and there a lovely shops that I would’ve enjoyed spending time at, or stopping in at the candy store there, too, so it is worth it to make that a full morning excursion. Bath deserved more time, too. There are cute shops and scenery. I hadn’t decided if I wanted to drag Scott through the Jane Austen Centre, but it was closed by the time our tour went there anyway.