Sunday Rocks!

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Today was a great experience, finally able to see one of the wonders of the world, Stonehenge.

We started early, on a train to Salisbury, where we then got a bus to Stonehenge. On the bus we met Victor, a very interesting guy from Portugal, and he talked our heads off, and latched on to us as well. It was fun listening to his travels that he has taken, alot of places that we want to go to.

We arrived at Stonehenge, and paid our admission, then walked to the stones. It was absolutely amazing, smaller than I had expected but actually we were closer to them than I expected as well. It was still very interesting to see how big these rocks were and to learn how they had stacked them up.

It was so cold, windy, and rainy, but well worth the journey.



The entire Stonehenge:



The most intact portion of Stonehenge:




We had originally planned to go to Avebury after Stonehenge but it was going to mean us waiting for 40 minutes on the bus to get there, then 1 1/2 hours on the bus to go to Avebury, then us catching the only remaining bus back that would take us another 1 1/2 hours to get back to Salisbury to catch the train back to London. We didn't really feel like it was worth it, since right now very few buses run in that direction. We will make it out there one day.

So, we decided to grab a bite to eat at a local pub and then go see Salisbury Cathedral. This Cathedral was amazing on the inside, we even got to take pictures. I think it may have been even more beautiful than The Bath Abbey. It is also known as the Cathedral with the tallest Spire in all of England.

The inside of the main chapel:




The spire:


The other main feature of the Salisbury Cathedral is that it houses one of only 4 originals of the Magna Carta, this one is the one that is in the best shape out of the 4. It was neat to see, I didn't really have a desire to see it but when we did it was amazing to see. It was written on cow hide and in very small script, I don't see how they wrote so small and neatly.

We then headed over to have afternoon tea at a historical home in Salisbury, then went to a pet shop to pamper the pets, of course, and then headed back home. We got home nearly 5 hours earlier than we expected, which was actually kind of nice for a Sunday evening.