Advertisement
Published: June 26th 2006
Edit Blog Post
Stonehenge
In all its glory....... Firstly I would like to say that all world cup referees need sacking, cos that penalty kick to Italy was absolute BULLSH*T and no we're not being bad sports, its true it was absolute cr*p and Australia would have won if the ref knew how to ref, and if Harry played. Arrrgghhh, will try not to dwell on it, but its not easy when there's many a depressed Aussie moping around.
Okay, new topic....
Well, its been an interesting couple of days for us, so I'll start at the beginning.
Sunday we went to Stonehenge, which for those of you who have been living under a rock and have never heard of it, (see my pun there?) its a bunch of huge rocks in the middle of nowhere, that at one stage formed a large circle, and records show it was put there around 5000 years ago. Nobody knows how or why.....its a mystery!
Apparently around 3050bc someone started building a circular ditch (a henge) then over the next couple of thousand years they constructed, arranged and re-arranged a whole lot of stones weighing several tonnes each to form a circle. Some of the stones were collected from as far as
Stonehenge again
Us posing with the big ol rocks! 385kms away......must have had a prehistoric tractor or something hey! :-)
Some say it all has something to do with the stars and planets, some say aliens put em there, and some say its some kind of ceremonial thing, but really there's obviously nobody left that knows the truth, so we can make up whatever stories we like about it!!
After our visit to stonehenge, we next ventured on to a little town called Devizes, and had lunch at the local pub, which was featured on 'Britains Most Haunted' tv show recently. We had a tour of the cellar where they hold nightly vigils trying to catch ghosts, and were told how the cellar used to consist of a lot of underground tunnels that were used as escape routes during the wars. Word is people have had their clothes tugged at and hands grabbed while they've been down in the cellar.
Okay, next we headed off to Avebury, where another rock formation stands, this ones got smaller rocks, although its a bigger circle, and is only a young 4500 years old as opposed to its older cousin Stonehenge, so we took some pics of that too.
Now today.... Mick
Stonehenge again
this is from another angle..... and I came home from work ready to say 'guess what happened to me today' only to find that we both had stories that could top each others!!
Micks story is....he had a chat with Ray Martin at the Earls Court tube station today as Ray was interviewing Rolf Harris for 60 minutes!! How's that, he even got to speak with old plastic hair himself. Apparently the conversation went something like this....(m) g'day, how are ya?.... (r) not bad, yourself?....(m) pretty good, whats going on?......(r) I'm trying to interview Rolf for 60 minutes, but he seems to be pretty popular..... (interrupted by an aussie with his arm around Rolf taking a photo of the two of them with his mobile phone).....(m) oh yeah....(r) watchin the soccer tonight?.....(m) yeah, you?......(r) yeah, it should be a good game....... Their conversation was then rudely interupted by the police telling mick and Ray to move out of the entrance way........... The end! Cool huh, mick does have a blurry picture on his phone to prove his story (unlike the missy higgins one) so I'm taking his word for it.
Now on to me..... I decided to ring Donna whilst on my lunch break
Stonehenge again
this is me, and this is pretty much all of it you can see in the picture now and ducked into the nearest phone box. Donna questioned me why she could hear so many sirens, I laughed and said, I dont know, its a main road in a big city, I guess thats why. Anyway the conversation continued, while I noticed a police officer starting to put up that blue police tape around the area, pretty much cordoning off my phone box. I mentioned it to Donna and we made a joke about me getting arrested for something. Anyway I decided there was a bit too much commotion going on for me to continue my lunchtime chat and thought I best get off the phone as a policeman was now standing at the door. I stepped out of the phonebox and was quickly ushered back through the tape and told to stand on the other side. As it so happened, whilst I was chatting away, the entire block had been cordened off, with my little phone box right in the middle of the 'no go zone' as apparently a 'suspicious package' had been left in the street. This also meant I couldnt get back to work until the commotion was over, but it did provide me with some
Famous Pub
Featured on 'Britains most haunted' ooohhhh, spooky....... good meals though! entertainment, and I couldnt help laughing at the fact that I was pretty much oblivious to it all whilst I was in the phone box. I wonder if he would have eventually told me to hang up? hahaha....ahhhh, london ey...neverending excitement! :-)
Well thats about it for now, trying to figure out what we will do this weekend.
Til then..........
Advertisement
Tot: 0.292s; Tpl: 0.012s; cc: 18; qc: 71; dbt: 0.0685s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.2mb
Z Kelvinator or Gavin
non-member comment
Mick
Dude, photo's should be a no go zone for you bud. No one wants to see you in front of what could of been a nice interesting photo but has been soiled once again by the efforts of a mad man. No offence! Oh and Tan, once again your oblivian to your surroundings once again had you in harms way and was just weird in the way nothing happens to you! If that been me, the booth would of been blown up and then i would of been shot by the 5o (police) and requsted that i freez! Dude havn't you seen phone booth the movie? The dude was probably watching you from a near by window going "Is this chick for real, i'v just shot at her twice and not a twitch!" I do think its cool though that mick got to see the hair and have a riveting conversation wit a seleb! Anywho, the rocks kinda suck, where are the photo's of the hot chicks? Thats all peace out.