Sunday morning the roads were clear again, so we headed for Stonehenge. This is my third trip to Stonehenge, but it's still pretty awesome for two reasons:
1. It is ancient! The Roman Baths seem ancient, but we know who built them and why. We can read their writing and study their language in high school. When the Romans got here Stonehenge was already ancient. Even the Romans had no idea why it was here or who built it. Pretty cool, huh? If you ever go to Stonehenge, listen to the audioguide and when it asks if you'd like to hear some legends regarding the stones, you should definitely punch in the number. The legends are pretty hilarious, and the background music on the audioguide makes it all sound more loony.
2. When you go someplace, you have to take into account the back-home factor. If, for example, you go to Pisa and you don't take a photo in front of the leaning tower of Pisa, the only thing people back home will ask you about is the leaning tower of Pisa. They can't help it, it's the only thing anyone's ever heard of in Pisa. (I've been to Pisa, and I'm pretty sure it's actually the only thing in Pisa) So you have to take photos in front of the major sights just because they are the major sights and you want to have cool photos to show to the people back home. In England, this means that if you have the time, you need to go to Stonehenge. In Paris, you have to stand in front of the Eiffel Tower. In Rome, you have to stand in front of the Coliseum. It's just what you do. So without further ado, the pictures of my third trip to Stonehenge:
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| Whenever you have four OSU students in the same photo... |
After Stonehenge we went to Avebury. Last summer, on my second trip to Stonehenge, the tour bus also stopped at Avebury. Avebury is a stone circle like Stonehenge, but it's much bigger. It actually goes around an entire town! It's also much less famous, probably because most of the stones were knocked over and buried and some archaeologist put them back upright. So it's not quite as historically cool, but it's really fun to be able to touch the stones. Stonehenge has a fence around it, but at Avebury you (and the sheep) can walk right up to the stones!
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| The only pub in Britain located within a stone circle. |
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| Small concrete markers show where stones have been completely removed. |
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| Walking carefully through the snow and sheep droppings |
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| Alyssa and I were posing for two different photos |
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| The obligatory silly photo |
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