Very warm sunny day - no wind
Wiltshire - Stonehenge
We set off today at about 11:00 am for Salisbury and then Stonehenge.
At some point we must have turned right prematurely because we ended up taking all the byways and backways to Stonehenge, which was picturesque but you wouldn't want to meet even a bicycle coming towards you.
Mary-Ann remarked on the policemen we kept seeing stationed around Salisbury - we even asked one directions to the Train Station. He said that he wasn't a local! Then the penny dropped - it was the consequence of the poisoning of the two Russians in Salisbury and then later the couple who found a vial that had had the stuff in it. The man eventually died.
Eventually we got to the Salisbury Train Station and there was the big green Stonehenge bus waiting for us.
The drive through Salisbury city was surprising with all the narrow streets and old buildings
The drive to Stonehenge took about half an hour. When we arrived at the visitor centre we got issued with a ticket for Stonehenge itself and little audio systems to hang round our necks to play information as we walked around numbered sites round the stones.
At first all you could see was a dense wood of trees between us and the Henge and then there it was:
The larger ones are the sarcen stones and amongst them are the smaller Bluestones
The Heel Stone lined everything up with the midwinter solstice
When we got back to the visitor centre, there was a complete recreation of a prehistoric village
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