I always seem to be running out of time. Let's just recap very briefly on my doings this past week. Took train to Bath on Friday evening and stayed at Backpacker's Hostel, which was crowded and not very clean. The bathrooms were located in the basement and my bed was on the 4th floor. I met an American girl who was on an exchange-work program at the hostel. She had just found a job working at a hotel outside the city. Also met another girl from Australia. Walked around the city, Circus, Crescent, Roman Baths, all very beautiful limestone. Also lots of bars and young couples mulling about the centrally located park. Next day I took a tour bus to Stonehenge. Was impressed even though I thought I would be disappointed because I would expect too much. Really incredible. Also went to site called Avebury. Met and had a lunch and a pint with girl from Perth Australia also on the bus. In the afternoon we visited some quant little towns called Lacock and Castlecomb. As soon as the bus got back, I took the train to Oxford where I stayed the night at the YHA hostel, which was much cleaner but also had much less interesting and younger people. Single sex rooms. Teenager in my room was from Hong Kong and did not speak English well. He said he had to went to school near Oxford, presumably highschool because he was so young. Another guy in the room, older, balding, was reading a chess strategy book. He looked Russian and did not seem to want to speak. Walked around the city in the evening for a little but it started to rain so I went back to the hostel and took a nice hot shower and went to sleep. In the morning I had a nice breakfast, walked around Oxford campus which was old and impressive, bought some souveniers, then took train to Stratford-Upon-Avon. Stratford was less tourist than I had imagined. Went to all 5 Shakespeare houses, 4 of which made no sense. They included houses of Shakespeare's mother, granddaughter, son-in-law, and whatnot, all very tangentially related to Shakespeare himself. Only the birthplace house was interesting, because a lot of famous people had visited and scratched their names in a glass window. Was proud that I had gone to all 5 houses, and even had time to squeeze in Shakespeare's tomb at Holy Trinity Church at the last second, even though I had to run to barely make the train back to Sheffield. Overall, it was a packed weekend, and I learned that I can do a lot of things if I take chances. Most of the time, I will win. I had only planned on Oxford, but then I squeezed in Stonehenge, then I squeezed in Bath, then Stratford-Upon-Avon. At Stratford, I squeezed in the full tour, all 5 houses, and the grave, bought souveniers at the Royal Shakespeare Co. and still made the train. The highlight was the Stonehenge tour and having lunch with the girl from Australia. She was working as a Nanny for a year in the UK. It was interesting to hear her story. If I didn't have to be in Oxford that night I would have stayed in Bath and probably gotten to know her better. But as it was, I had the reservation in Oxford waiting for me, and I did not want to have to look for another place to stay in Bath.