Adventure in England: Stonehenge

So i was staying with Vicky and her Dad in Winchester, Winchester is a fantastic old village with some awesome stuff of it's own i'll be writing about at some point. Anyway it's quite close to Stonehenge so we decide to go an have a look. I don't know much about it, other than it's very old and amazing because it's impossible.

We got in the canvas covered landy and drove the two or so hours to the stones. It's a long drive and in true English fashion we got caught in some traffic from hell where we got to crawl around a mile in thirty minutes. As we we're crawling along the A303 you could see it from the side. Slowly growing from the fog. It's a low structure across the fields. We drove past and past and had to walk back, across the fields to get to it.

There was a vistors centre and a ticket booth but we walked on past it, At the stone, there was a helpful man who asked for tickets but we said we didnt have any. So we we're guide to a nearby field to look. So we ended up standing about a metre away from the paying people and looking at 'Stonehenge'

It's one of those places that people drive past again and again, because it's just there. It's hard to spend much time at the stones, because they are indeed just stones, but the idea of them really gets stuck in your mind. Australia has a lot of natural history, lots of ancient trees and mountains but this is both man made and nature in one. The stones that make the structure are old and look it. It's a shame you can't touch them anymore because it seems like they would be cold to the touch. The structure is so strange as well. It's not that it was built so many hundreds of years ago, by people who shouldn't have had cranes and forklifts, but why. Why did they both building this monster structure in an empty field.

If you're near this place you should have a look. You can avoid the 17 pound ticket if you're willing to walk. If you go at sunset (4ish!) you'll get some great snaps. Again it's not a place you'll spend all day, but you will spend a lot of time afterwards thinking about it.