{"id":1513,"date":"2009-04-02T20:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T01:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2009-04-03T07:44:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T12:44:27","slug":"visiting-stone-henge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2009\/04\/visiting-stone-henge\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Stonehenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/i> busy!). Even so, I was able to get a lot of photos of the stones that were relatively people-free.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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And there were sheep!<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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 ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}