Stonehenge

Great start today as we had a buffet breakfast at the YHA in Salisbury. We took a walk up into town and went to a service at the Salisbury Cathedral where we saw two babies being baptised. After the service we switched over from parishoner to tourist mode and looked around the cathedral. We then headed up to Old Sarum before driving on to Stonehenge. Gem had been playing down my expectations of it since she remembers not being that impressed with it when she went there last (when she was 10) as you can't walk up to the stones like in Avebury. But when we got there it was much closer than she remembers and she said she was much more impressed this time around. I thought it was amazing and it was awesome to walk around it to see it from all angles. I found a pop up book in a tourist shop which explained all the stone positionings and what it used to look like before it was ruins (pop up books are awesome!)



Along the way to Avebury we came across a couple of funny road signs. The first was a triangular give way sign with a picture of a tank in it ("Tanks crossing", not joking). The second was an exclamation mark with the words below "Road liable to subduction" which we found really funny but on the way back we found it actually said subsidence not subduction so the story really isn't that funny anymore. (The end, by Jeremy)

The stone circle in Avebury is cool because it is way bigger than Stonehenge and goes right through the village. It even has sheep grazing around them and I saw one scratching itself on one of the stones. Unlike Stonehenge you can go right up to them so we got a couple of photos leaning up against the huge stones.



Now its time for dinner and Gem is getting impatient so better go, Bye!

PS: As I'm the geek I am I couldn't help myself thinking "Congratulations on building a wonder of the world Stonehenge, you get a free obelisk in every city, becomes obsolete with the discovery of Calendar". Thats a Civilization game reference :).

Gem: maybe thats why there are so many oblisks in Europe, they really love them here, every place we go has them all over the place.