Travelling back in time along England’s A30

Travelling back in time along England’s A30 Heading west from London, I’d planned the

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perfect British must-see road trip to Bath via Stonehenge, but before we’d even left the capital one kid cried ‘car sickness’ and we had to stop. Amazingly that was outside Chiswick House & Gardens, a classic neo-Palladian mansion, and the perfect bookend for our final destination: Bath. A 45-minute pit stop later, and we're back on the road skipping the motorway for the A30, the London-Winchester road, because we're here to see England (and I haven’t yet nailed The Highway Code). Thanks to a thoughtful redevelopment in 2013, Stonehenge had a significant ‘wow’ factor as we summited the hill by foot, but the kids loved exploring the mock Neolithic village more (what do you do?). We hit Bath after dark, but with the city centre lit up it had a fairy tale atmosphere, and the streets were busy with Saturday night revelry. Even the swans on the River Avon were in high spirits. Tasmin Waby – Destination editor for Australia and the Pacific. Follow her tweets @TravellingTaz