City to City!

London to Amesburry England, Amesburry to Salisbury, Salisbury to Dublin.

Yesterday, or two days ago not counting a full 24+ day of traveling we saw the ancient ruins of Stonehenge.
We stayed in a beautiful little hostel in a small English town called Amesburry. When doing research for areas to stay near the Henge the "Rare Breeds Farm" was listed as a small affordable place to say close to Stonehenge. What I didn't realize was that Amesburry is in the middle of NOWHERE! It's a very small town outside of the Henge and a mile and a half walk from the nearest road. The first day we arrived, we were treated with what the name of the farm suggests...rare breeds of animals. Sheep, pigs, horses, chickens, turkey's.. you name it, they had it, and many different breeds of them. After spending the day looking around and doing some heavy petting we walked the mile or so to the bus stop. caught one of the 5 or so buses leaving the town, and headed to Salisbury. Salisbury is an amazing medieval town with a great "European" feel. upon arrival I hit the TIC (travel Information Center) and sealed our departure routes out of Salisbury. after a slight disappointment of finding out that we missed the last bus to Stonehenge we cruised around the city and ate some food. after cruising around eating and drinking(of course) we decided to leave and we hit another slight disappointment when we found out that we had missed the last bus to Amesburry. We decided to spend some more time in the town and hit a few more pubs. Later that night we took a Taxi back to Amesburry and called it a night.


Stonehenge at this point presented to be a very illusive set of stones. Waking up at 9 o'clock we headed back to Salisbury to go see as many people have told us in a bewildering tone to why some one would want to see "a set of stones" We caught the 1 o'clock bus to Stonehenge and cruised along the amazing, and breathtaking English countryside. We skipped over elegant green hills and dipped down valleys. We peeked over hills that presented the heaps of burial grounds, and as we cruised along we got our first glance of the stones. The bus took us directly to the site and dropped us off allowing us as much time to take a unguided tour. It was as to be expected a indescribable sight. Where woulds could never express the inner feelings and thought provoking attitude these stones offer. After dodging a conversation with "old lady Stonehenge" who was babbling about "reality" and time perception for a second I though about scoring drugs off of her, but quickly decided it was a bad idea.


Leaving Stonehenge we plotted our next move. It was to go from the Salisbury train station to the Fishguard harbor port in Wales. Then from Wales take a ferry to Rosslare Ireland, from Rosslare Ireland to Dublin. our departure time was 745 pm. We got to the rail station at 6 and our waiting started. We had three interconnecting trains which got us to Fishguard at 1 am. Once at Fishguard we had a 2am ferry to Ireland. The ferry didn't arrive until 3am. Once aboard sleep hit instantly. Arriving in Ireland at 7am a train awaited us to take us to Dublin. our official check in time was 2 and we reached the hostel at 11am. 15 hours of traveling, we had finally reached the second city and third country in Europe.

Check list of countries so far.

England
Wales
Ireland

I feel good, real good.

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