Blogs from Avebury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

well all we can say about today can better be told by looking at the pics.....had breakfast...headed off to ride our bikes first to west kennet long barrow. of course we got sidetracked all the way there...first we came across st.mary's church..an old saxon church..brilliant place..amazing..been a church there since ad 1000.....of course it said go see the rectory just behind the church..so we take the path behind the church..behind a little row of trees and pop out.....at the bigger church that overshadowed that little parish church for a few hundred years.....not as old..but really old still as well...and beautiful! nice big bell tower....and a yew tree on teh side..that is 1700 years old......i stood inside it..it had become almost 2 trees its so big and old.....awesome. ok continue on up a hella big hill...but finally ... read more

So, I was planning to spend this weekend in Katowice as I booked a £2 RyanAir return a few months back, coinciding with what I thought might be another show in Prague, but this turned out not to happen. However some important uni commitments came up and tbh, I can't really afford to spend 4 days in a city where I know no one and didn't fancy sleeping rough in the forest in the bleak Silesian midwinter. Instead I took one day off uni and with this rather wonderful character Jitka (who hadn't left London in months - something which I believe to be seriously dangerous to one's health), headed down to Avebury, a place my friend Gabriela recommended to me due to its high energy, ancient stone circles and rather spectacular "natural" features. It was ... read more

Went to see anopther little village close by with Greg and his parents. Avebury is known for it's stone circles that have been around since prehistoric times (4500 to 5000 years old...). This country has so much history that it's hard to retain everything! The Stone Circle is similar to Stonehenge as in no one knows how it came about and what it was for........ read more

Yep another day trip out of London. This time to see an area of … well… rocks really. Okay, it sounds like I’m being a little sarcastic but we had a great day. Avebury is actually a really beautiful and interesting place to visit. Basically it is an amazing part of the English countryside that is a World Heritage Site. There are huge rocks there that were put into huge circular formations in about 2600BC. No one is exactly sure why. As far as prehistoric stone circles go, these are some of the biggest in Europe and they were great to explore and photograph. A neat little village too, with a museum and lots of history. A great place to get out for a country walk on a crisp winters day. ... read more