On March 18th made the 1.5ish hour drove down to Stonehenge. We went on a Wednesday and it was still pretty busy (apparently weekends are really busy!). Even so, I was able to get a lot of photos of the stones that were relatively people-free.
We arrived and parked in the available parking lot. There is a tall fence around the stones, and you pay to actually go around the stones. You buy your tickets, grab your audio tour gadget and then head on a little tunnel under the road and up to the stones.
You can’t touch the stones themselves, they have a nice little trail that goes around them as you listen to your audio tour and take a million pictures.
And there were sheep!
After walking around the stones and listening to the full audio tour, we settled down for a picnic lunch of crunchy Italian bread and butter and salami, some tastey Blue Riband chocolates, and bananas. Yum! Except there was a big scary bird sitting on the fence near us.
We spent the rest of the evening driving around the countryside. It’s really beautiful down there. The day wound down and the parks closed so we headed back and I got to experience rush our traffic on the M25, which was just as bad at Philadelphia route 76 traffic at any time ;)
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2009 at 3:42
Sheep! Must be your first time in the english countryside if you think they are worthy of photo as compared to the stones. I’ve never atualy bothered to pay to go through the tunnel but driven past them quite a few times. I hope it was worth the extortionate prices they charge american tourists :)
Saturday, Apr 4th, 2009 at 16:38
A little more that wasn’t in the audio guide-
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