HoodedHawk

Went to Stonehenge in the morning. It’s about an hour or so from Bath via car. It’s quite impressive, and they have roped it off so you can view it withough people climbing all over the stones. – the downside is that you can only get so close. It’s only a little 1-foot high rope surrounding the monument, so you are just on the honor system to not run up to the stones. There were a fair number of visitors when we got there, but all were behind the ropes. :)

After Stonehenge, we went down to Salisbury – by way of Amesbury. We stopped in Amesbury by accident, believing we’d reached Salisbury. Ooops. But since we were there, we went in and toured the Cathedral in Amesbury. Eventually we got to Salisbury and toured the Cathedral. We saw one of the 4 surviving copies of the Magna Carta (and the best preserved). It was written on a single sheet of vellum in Latin in 1215 AD. On the way back to Bath, we stopped by Avesbury to see the stone circle there. It’s much bigger (spread out over more area), and totally accessible – kids were climbing all over the stones and people were picnicing. Fun. Had a nice dinner at a pub in Amesbury (I had venison pie – yum!). When we got to Bath (~8pm) we went to the Roman Baths again to see them lit via torchlight. After the baths we stopped at “Lambergetta” pub (its theme being the Lambergetta scooter). Younger (good) crowd (20-30’s) there. Nice comfy leather couch to enjoy Guinness. Pubs tend to close at 11:00, so we trotted back to the BB and called it a night.

Arrive at Heathrow about 8am, and take a bus from Central Station to Bath (about 2 hours). Once in Bath, we have a hell of a time finding the National rental car place. I end up leaving the Lady to watch the bags at a random bus stop while I walk what turned out to be ~1.5 miles to the car place.

We get to Holly Villa B+B around 2 or so and take a nap. Got up and visited the Roman baths (for which Bath is famous), took a walk around Bath and had dinner at Huntsman Inn. Called it a night.

Holly Villa	Roman Baths

Just received my Vonage (voip) telephone adaptor last night. This allows me to make phone calls (using my normal telephone) over my broadband Internet connection. Took less that 5 minutes to install. Sound (to me) is the same as a normal land-line. At $29.00 flat-fee per month for unlimited local and long-distance calls, it’s a steal.

I really like the feature that lets you have voicemails forwarded to an email account (as .wav files). Once my old home phone number is ported to Vonage, I’ll be cancelling my Verizon line – saving me $30.00/month. Vonage provides a temporary “virtual” number so I can use the service until my old number is ported (which can take 20 days).

Lots of other features. And if you do international calling, it’s really cheap. I can call the UK, for instance, for $0.03/min!

see: Vonage

Ok, saw this movie last night. I had read the (3?) Ludlum books in this series, years ago. The Bourne Identity (movie) was really good -enjoyed it enough that I bought the DVD. The Bourne Supremacy, while still better than most movies out today (can you say “Manchurian Candidate”?), was not as good as the first. Can’t say more since I tend to say too much and spoil things. :)

The DeathStar is here!
Cassini picture of one of Saturn’s moons.